CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/9/2018

Fluid and improvisational, 'Saul Leiter: Early Color'

"Walking" (1956) is reproduced from Saul Leiter: Early Color, back in stock from Steidl. (Also releasing this week, Steidl's long-awaited Saul Leiter: In My Room.) According to essayist Martin Harrison, this image, like most of the images in Early Color, renders "color and motion in semi-abstract form—fluid, improvisational. Reflected figures dissolve into elegiac blur, shifting in focus, intangible, lost in time. The evocative, painterly images on these pages vividly demonstrate that in the second half of the twentieth-century Saul Leiter's photographic language of fragmentation and contingency was extending the boundaries of the medium."