Saul Leiter
Saul Leiter | |
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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania , US | |
| Died | November 26, 2013 (aged 89) New York City, US |
| Occupation(s) | Photographer and painter |
Saul Leiter (December 3, 1923 – November 26, 2013) was an American photographer and painter whose early work in the 1940s and 1950s was an important contribution to what came to be recognized as the New York school of photography.[1]: 259
Life and work
Saul Leiter was born in
Pousette-Dart and W. Eugene Smith encouraged Leiter to pursue photography and he was soon taking black and white pictures with a 35 mm Leica, which he acquired in exchange for a few Eugene Smith prints. In 1948, he started taking color photographs.[2] He began associating with other contemporary photographers, such as Robert Frank and Diane Arbus, and helped form what Jane Livingston has termed the New York School of photographers in the 1940s and 1950s.[1]: 259
Beginning in the early 1960s, Leiter worked as a fashion photographer for the next 20 years and was published in Show,
Leiter is the subject of a 2012 feature-length documentary
Martin Harrison, editor and author of Saul Leiter Early Color (2006),[5] writes, "Leiter’s sensibility . . . placed him outside the visceral confrontations with urban anxiety associated with photographers such as Robert Frank or William Klein. Instead, for him the camera provided an alternate way of seeing, of framing events and interpreting reality. He sought out moments of quiet humanity in the Manhattan maelstrom, forging a unique urban pastoral from the most unlikely of circumstances."
Leiter died on 26 November 2013[6] in New York City.[7]
Publications
- Early Color. Introduction by Martin Harrison.
- Göttingen: ISBN 978-3865211392.
- Göttingen: Steidl, 2013. ISBN 978-3869303529.
- Göttingen:
- Saul Leiter.
- Paris: Delpire, 2007. Photo Poche series.
- London: ISBN 978-0500410974. Photofile series.
- Early Black and White.
- Göttingen: Steidl, 2008.
- Göttingen: Steidl; Howard Greenberg Gallery, 2014. ISBN 978-3865214133. Two volumes, boxed edition. By Max Kozloff, edited by Howard Greenberg and Bob Shamis with the assistance of Margit Erb, with an additional essay by Jane Livingston.
- Saul Leiter. Göttingen: Steidl, 2008. ISBN 9783865216625. Preface by Agnès Sire.
- Photographs and Works on Paper. Antwerp: Fifty One Publication, 2011. ISBN 9789081772501. Exhibition Catalogue.
- Saul Leiter Retrospektive. Hamburg: Kehrer Verlag, 2012. ISBN 978-3-86828-258-0
- Here's more, why not?. Antwerp: Fifty One Publication, 2013. ISBN 978-9081772518.
- Painted Nudes. London: Sylph, 2015. ISBN 978-1909631069.
- All About Saul Leiter. Seigensha, 2017. Catalogue published to accompany an exhibition at the Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, 2017. Captions in English and Japanese. ISBN 978-4861526169
- London: ISBN 978-0500294536
- London:
- In My Room. Göttingen; Steidl, 2018. ISBN 978-3958291034
- Women. Tokyo: Space Shower, 2018. ISBN 9784909087157. Mostly photographs, some paintings.
- East 10th Street. Antwerp: Fifty One Publication, 2019. ISBN 978-9463883207
- Forever Saul Leiter. London: Thames & Hudson, 2022. ISBN 978-0500296431
- The Unseen Saul Leiter. London: Thames & Hudson, 2022. ISBN 9780500545560. Previously unseen slides from Leiter archive, curated by Erb & Parillo.
Filmography
- In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter (2013) – documentary about Leiter directed and produced by Tomas Leach; 75 mins
Solo exhibitions
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- 1944: Ten Thirty Gallery, Cleveland.
- 1945: The Outlines Gallery, Pittsburgh.
- 1947: Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH.
- 1950s: Tanager Gallery, New York.
- 1954: Emerging Talent. Curated by Clement Greenberg. Samuel Koontz Gallery, New York.
- 1972: Midtown Y, New York.
- 1984: Gallery Lafayette, New York.
- 1985: Gallery Lafayette, New York.
- 1993: Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
- 1994: Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
- 1997: Saul Leiter, In Color. Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago.
- 1997: Saul Leiter, In Color. Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
- 2004: Saul Leiter, In Color. Staton Greenberg Gallery, Santa Barbara.
- 2005: Saul Leiter, Early Color. Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
- 2006: The Fashion Photographs of Saul Leiter, Festival of Fashion Photography, Hyères, France.
- 2006: Saul Leiter, Color, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp.
- 2006: In Living Color, Photographs by Saul Leiter, Milwaukee Art Museum.
- 2007: Saul Leiter, Early Color, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor.
- 2008: Saul Leiter, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris.
- 2008: Saul Leiter, Faggionato Fine Arts, London.
- 2008: Saul Leiter, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York.
- 2008: Saul Leiter, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta.
- 2008: Saul Leiter, Galleria C arla Sozzani, Milan.
- 2008: Saul Leiter, Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris.
- 2009: Saul Leiter, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp.
- 2010: Saul Leiter, Mois de la Foto, Paris.
- 2011: Saul Leiter, New York Reflections, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam.
- 2011: Saul Leiter, Early Color, Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne
- 2011: Saul Leiter, Photographs and works on paper, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp.
- 2012: Saul Leiter, Retrospective, Deichtorhallen Hamburg.
- 2013: Saul Leiter, Here's more, why not, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp.
- 2013: Saul Leiter, Black & white, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp.
- 2013: Saul Leiter, Kunst Haus Wien.
- 2015: Homage to Saul Leiter, Fifty One gallery, Antwerp.
Collections
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Leiter's work is held in the following public collections:
- Addison Gallery of American Art
- The AlbertinaMuseum, Vienna
- Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
- Milwaukee Art Museum
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Museum of Modern Art, New York
- National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
- St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
- Staatliche MuseenZu Berlin,
- Victoria & Albert Museum, London
- Whitney Museum of American Arts, New York
References
- ^ ISBN 1-55670-239-6).
- ^ a b Sire, Agnès. Saul Leiter, Steidl Publishers, Göttingen, Germany 2008.
- ^ Wissot, Lauren (3 January 2014). "Director Tomas Leach on In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 2019-02-05.
- ^ O'Hagan, Sean (29 November 2013). "Saul Leiter obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 December 2013.
- ^ Harrison, Martin. Saul Leiter Early Color.
- ^ "Photographer Saul Leiter has died". British Journal of Photography.
- New York Times.
External links
- Saul Leiter Foundation website
- Saul Leiter Early Black and White Photo Book The Eye of Photography
- Saul Leiter interview at Photographers Speak
- 18 photographs by Saul Leiter
- In No Great Hurry, a feature documentary about Saul Leiter by Tomas Leach
- 'Coffee and conversation with photographer Saul Leiter' in 2008 by Visual Productions NYC
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