SAUL LEITER: EARLY BLACK AND WHITE STEIDL ISBN: 9783865214133 Out of stock indefinitely | Not available SAUL LEITER: ALL ABOUT SAUL LEITER RM/SEIGENSHA ISBN: 9788417047498 SAUL LEITER: IN MY ROOM STEIDL ISBN: 9783958291034 He takes risks-flouting conventions of camera technique and apparently indifferent to the limits of the light-gathering capacity of emulsions.' continue to blog 'Confronted by a dense web of data, fleeting moments in space and time, he employs an array of strategies-oblique framings, complex intersecting planes and ambiguous reflections-to distil an urban visual poetry that is by turns deeply affectionate, edgy and breathtakingly poignant. (Also releasing this week, Steidl's long-awaited Saul Leiter: In My Room.) 'Saul Leiter's vision is founded on a rapid eye for absorbing spontaneous events,' Martin Harrison writes in Early Color. This book, published to mark the first major retrospective of Leiter’s work anywhere in the world, features for the first time, in addition to his early black and white and color images, his fashion photography, the overpainted nudes, as well as his paintings and sketchbooks.FROM THE ARTBOOK BLOG CORY REYNOLDS | DATE In 'Saul Leiter: Early Color,' urban visual poetry that is by turns deeply affectionate, edgy and breathtakingly poignant 'Don't Walk' (1952) is reproduced from Saul Leiter: Early Color, back in stock from Steidl.

Nearly 40 years would go by before his extraordinary artistic color photography was rediscovered. Leiter accordingly worked primarily as a fashion photographer, for magazines such as Esquire and Harper’s Bazaar. Back then color photography was regarded as »low art,« fit only for advertising.

Edward Steichen was one of the first to discover Leiter’s photography, showing it in the 1950s in two important exhibitions at New York’s MoMA. Like Robert Frank or Helen Levitt, he found his motifs on the streets of New York, but at the same time was visibly interested in abstraction. After coming to New York in 1946, he exhibited alongside Abstract Expressionists like Willem de Kooning before beginning in the late 1940s to take black and white photographs. This can perhaps be attributed to the fact that Leiter saw himself for a long time mainly as a painter. Saul Leiter has only in recent years finally received his due as one of the great pioneers of color photography.

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