2012 Attends retrospective exhibition at Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, Germany accompanying book, Saul Leiter: Retrospective, is published by Kehrer. 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. 2011 Saul Leiter: Colors is published by Idpure ditions, accompanying the exhibition Saul Leiter: Early Color at the Muse de l’Elyse in Lausanne, Switzerland. Nearly 40 years would go by before his extraordinary artistic color photography was rediscovered.

Leiter accordingly worked primarily as a fashion photographer, for magazines such as Esquire and Harper’s Bazaar. Leiter originally shot for magazines like Vogue. Saul Leiters vision is founded on a rapid eye for absorbing spontaneous events, Martin Harrison writes in Early Color. What Leiter called his little book became an overnight sensation with worldwide distribution and firmly established the artist as an early pioneer in. Back then color photography was regarded as »low art,« fit only for advertising. The Most Uninteresting in Color: Saul Leiter, the Master of Street Photography. Yet only recently has the seminal color street photography of Saul Leiter from an earlier decade, the 1950s, come to be appreciated. In 2006, with the help of the art historian Martin Harrison and Howard Greenberg Gallery, the groundbreaking monograph Saul Leiter: Early Color was published by Gerhard Steidl in Germany. Edward Steichen was one of the first to discover Leiter’s photography, showing it in the 1950s in two important exhibitions at New York’s MoMA. Like Robert Frank or Helen Levitt, he found his motifs on the streets of New York, but at the same time was visibly interested in abstraction. After coming to New York in 1946, he exhibited alongside Abstract Expressionists like Willem de Kooning before beginning in the late 1940s to take black and white photographs.

This can perhaps be attributed to the fact that Leiter saw himself for a long time mainly as a painter. Saul Leiter has only in recent years finally received his due as one of the great pioneers of color photography. A thrilling trove of newly discovered color works from the photographer celebrated for his pioneering painterly vision Now firmly established as one of the.

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