Saul Leiter: Haus der Photografie
by
Saul Leiter
Early Color (3rd edition) by Saul Leiter
Condition:
NEW AND SEALED
Publisher:
Steidl 2011
Pages:
168
Format:
Hardback, 3rd edition
Although Edward Steichen exhibited some of Saul Leiter's color photographs at the Museum of Modern Art in 1953, for forty years after wards 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 painter and through his friendship with the abstract expressionist Richard Pousette-Dart he quickly recognized the creative potential of photography. Though he continued to paint, exhibiting alongside Philip Guston and Willem de Kooning, Leiter's camera became - like an extension of his arm and mind - an ever-present interpreter of life in the metropolis. The semi-mythical notion of the 'New York street photographer' was born at the same time, in the late-1940s. But Leiter's sensibility - comparable to the European intimism of Bonnard, a painter he greatly admires - placed him outside the visceral confrontations with urban anxiety associated with photographers such as Robert Frank or William Klein.
Highly collectible book. 3rd edition, already scarce.
£ 75.00 In stock
