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Saul Leiter: Early Color | 
| Creators: Martin Harrison, Saul Leiter
Publisher: Steidl/Howard Greenberg Gallery
Category: Book
List Price: $65.00
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Rating:  3 reviews
Sales Rank: 130632
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 168
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 8.2 x 0.9
ISBN: 3865211399
Dewey Decimal Number: 770
EAN: 9783865211392
ASIN: 3865211399
Publication Date: January 15, 2006
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Product Description
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 painter, but 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. He sought out moments of quiet humanity in the Manhattan maelstrom, forging a unique urban pastoral from the most unlikely of circumstances. The lyricism and intensity of his vision come into fullest play in his eloquent handling of color unequaled by his contemporaries. Leiter's visual language of fragmentation, ambiguity, and contingency is evoked by these 100 subtle, painterly images that stretched the boundaries of photography in the second half of the 20th century. Introduction by Martin Harrison. Clothbound, 7.75 x 7.75 in./176 pgs / 100 color.
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| Customer Reviews:
 Interesting early colour selection December 16, 2008
John Lloyd
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
A very interesting selection of early colour photography. Not quite as impressive as I had expected from the build-up and other references I had seen before buying.
 An Excellent Monograph June 1, 2007
Chris Kitze (San Francisco, CA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This monograph was suggested by a friend of mine who is a very talented designer and photographer -- he thought it would be a good touchstone for my work. The book is a smallish format (8 x 8 inches) with color plates, one per page of about 100 images. It was published in conjunction with a show at New York's Howard Greenberg Gallery.
Leiter was best known as a painter who exhibited alongside Philip Guston and Willem de Kooning in the 1950's, but his real talent may have been as a photographer. Focusing on urban street scenes in New York, Leiter creates a highly layered visual sensibility -- not a translation of abstract expresionism to photography, but a style uniquely his own that defines the photographic medium in a new way. Many of the images look forward to the digital montage styles that are gaining currency today, but with a lyrical beauty and rhythm that speak to the humanity and drama of the street. It is unfortunate it took the world 40 years to appreciate this visual genius and rediscover what he saw.
A must have photobook.
A Master of Color Photography August 25, 2006
Jonathan Leiter (Staten Island, NY)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Long overdue, this give this long over-looked artist a place to shine. The color reproductions are marvelous and have a woderfule bygone era quality about them.
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