Saul Leiter (1923–2013) was an American painter and photographer whose work was deeply connected to New York's East Village, a neighborhood he lived in for more than 55 years.
The address she gives me corresponds to the studio and apartment of Saul Leiter.' The apartment is situated two steps from my very apartment, on the same street, 10th Street, in New York City's East Village. She tells me that she has just bought her neighbor's apartment and asks me if I have any interest in photographing its interior. 'I receive a phone call from my friend Suzanne. Halard photographed the decrepit walls, the empty closet, and the few objects Saul Leiter had left behind. 1961, French) visited Saul Leiter’s almost empty apartment in the East Village, two years after Leiter's passing in 2013.
MoMA’s 1957 conference “Experimental Photography in Color” featured 20 color photographs by Leiter.In 2015, François Halard (b. Who included Leiter in two important MoMA shows in the 1950s. He had no formal training in photography, but the genius of his early work was quickly acknowledged by Edward Steichen. 1923) started shooting street photography in New York in the 1940s. This long-awaited new edition of the book, first published to mark the major retrospective of Leiter’s work at Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg in 2012, features, in addition to his early black and white and color images, his fashion photography, the overpainted nudes, as well as his paintings and sketchbooks. 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. 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.īack then color photography was regarded as "low art," fit only for advertising. 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 has only in recent years finally received his due as one of the great colour photographers. PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch. The cover has a small bump on bottom edge.
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