Although Edward Steichen exhibited some of Saul Leiter's color photographs at The Museum of Modern Art in 1953, for 40 years afterward they remained virtually unknown to the art world. Saul Leiter: Early Color provides the first opportunity to see a comprehensive presentation of images by one of photography's great originals. Leiter moved to New York in 1946 intending to be a p...(展开全部)

"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."--icp.org.

"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."--icp.org.

An in-depth look at Saul Leiter's entire body of work.

Although Edward Steichen exhibited some of Saul Leiter's color photographs at The Museum of Modern Art in 1953, for 40 years afterward they remained virtually unknown to the art world. Saul Leiter: Early Color provides the first opportunity to see a comprehensive presentation of images by one of photography's great originals. Leiter moved to New York in 1946 intending to be a p...(展开全部)

An in-depth look at Saul Leiter's entire body of work.

The distinctive iconography of Saul Leiter's earliest black-and-white photographs stems from his profound response to street life in 1940s and 50s New York City. While Leiter's technique borrowed from the immediacy of photo-documentary work, his imagery was generated by subjective and highly individual reactions to the people and places he encountered. The mystery of the city p...(展开全部)