LEITER, Saul - Retrospective (as actual reissue)

Background information

"Saul LEITER did not receive the recognition he deserved as one of the leading pioneers of color photography until shortly before his death. This may be because he long saw himself primarily as a painter. Arriving in New York in 1946, he exhibited alongside Abstract Expressionists such as Willem de Kooning. In the late 1940s, he began to photograph in black and white in addition to painting. Like Robert FRANK or Helen LEVITT, he found his subjects on the streets of New York, but was visibly interested in abstraction. Edward STEICHEN was one of the first to discover his photographs and show them in the 1950s in two important photography exhibitions and in his slide show 'Experimental Photography in Color' at New York's MoMA. At the time, color photography was still considered a commercial art whose place was in advertising. Since the late 1950s, LEITER worked primarily as a fashion photographer, among others for 'Esquire' and 'Harper's Bazaar'. It would be almost forty years before his artistic color photography was rediscovered, its colorfulness testifying more to painterly use than photographic means. 

Content

Published in 2012 on the occasion of the world's most comprehensive retrospective of the work of Saul LEITER and reissued on the occasion of the exhibition in Munich, which will be shown again in the summer of 2019, this illustrated book shows his early black-and-white as well as color photographs, and for the first time his fashion photography, overpainted nudes, and his paintings and sketchbooks." (slightly adapted publisher's text, © Kehrer Verlag, 2014/2018)

About US-American photographer, Saul LEITER (1923-2013)

Photo books by as well as about the work of Saul LEITER