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Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter Early Color

Fourth edition

Hardback (26 Jun 2006)

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Publisher's Synopsis

This is a reprint of the immensely successful Early Color (2006), which presented Leiter's remarkable body of colour work to the public for the first time in book form. Although Edward Steichen had exhibited some of Leiter's colour photography at the Museum of Modern Art in 1953, it remained virtually unknown to the world thereafter. Leiter moved to New York in 1946 to become a painter, yet through his friendship with Richard Pousette-Dart he quickly recognized the creative potential of photography. Leiter continued to paint, exhibiting with Philip Guston and Willem de Kooning, but the camera remained his ever-present means of recording life in the metropolis. None of Leiter's contemporaries, with the partial exception of Helen Levitt, assembled a comparable body of work: subtle, often abstract compositions of lyrical, eloquent colour.

Book information

ISBN: 9783865211392
Publisher: Steidl
Imprint: Steidl
Pub date:
Edition: Fourth edition
DEWEY: 779.092
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 160
Weight: 744g
Height: 212mm
Width: 212mm
Spine width: 16mm