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The Unseen Saul Leiter: with 76 color slides
The Unseen Saul Leiter: with 76 color slides
Erb, Margit Parillo, Michael (Erb, Margit Parillo, Michael)

SKU: VV1650244
ISBN: 9780500545560

Pages: 160
Hardback
year: 2022
Publicher: Thames & Hudson (Thames & Hudson)


Price: $322.91

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The first sightings of newly discovered work from Saul Leiter's abundant archive of colour slides. Now widely acclaimed as one of the world's greatest photographers, Saul Leiter (1923-2013) remained relatively unsung until he was rediscovered by curators and critics in his early 80s, and his work has been drastically re-evaluated over the last two decades. Leiter's images evoked the flow and rhythm of life on the mid-century streets of New York in luminous colour at a time when his contemporaries were shooting in black and white. His complex and impressionistic photographs are as much about evoking an atmosphere as nailing the decisive moment. Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh and moved to New York City in 1946. He pioneered a painterly approach to colour photography starting in the late 1940s and produced covers for fashion magazines such as Esquire and Harper's Bazaar before largely withdrawing from public attention in the 1980s. The publication in 20