Saul Leiter

This major retrospective of American artist Saul Leiter, one of the great pioneers of color photography, features a comprehensive look at his work ranging from early photographs, his fashion photography, paintings, sketchbooks and more. Now back in its fourth reprint! Saul Leiter (b. 1923 in Pittsburgh) has finally taken his rightful place among the great pioneers of color photography. After coming to New York in 1946, he exhibited alongside abstract expressionists like Willem de Kooning before beginning in the late 1940s to take photographs. 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. Edward Steichen (renowned as one of the most prolific and influential figures in the history of photography, he served as Director of the Department of Photography at New York's Museum of Modern Art from 1947-1961) was one of the first to discover Leiter's photography, showing it in the 1950s in two importa