CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 12/10/2022

Artbook | D.A.P. & ICP present Margit Erb & Michael Parillo for the launch of 'The Unseen Saul Leiter'

Saturday, December 10 at 3PM, please join Artbook | D.A.P. and ICP | International Center for Photography for the launch of The Unseen Saul Leiter, published by D.A.P. Authors Margit Erb and Michael Parillo of the Saul Leiter Foundation will present and discuss images from the book, followed by a Q&A and a reception in the bookstore.

Now firmly established as one of the world’s greatest photographers, Saul Leiter (1923–2013) was relatively little known until the 2006 publication of Saul Leiter: Early Color, when he was already in his eighties. Choosing to shoot in color when black and white was the norm, Leiter portrayed midcentury New York’s street life with a gorgeous painterliness that evoked the sensuality of his Abstract Expressionist contemporaries Rothko and Newman. His studio in the East Village, where he lived from 1952 until his death in 2013, is now the home of the Saul Leiter Foundation, which has commenced a full-scale survey of his more than 80,000 works.
This volume contains works discovered through this project—specifically, color photography from slides never before published or seen by the public. It is edited by Margit Erb and Michael Parillo of the Saul Leiter Foundation, and is embellished with texts that describe how Leiter assembled his slide archive and how it is being catalogued and restored.

This is a hybrid event. In-person tickets are free with museum admission. Online tickets are free with suggested donation. In-person and online tickets are non-interchangeable. Buy tickets here.

The Unseen Saul Leiter Launch
Saturday, December 10: 3PM
ICP | International Center for Photography
ICP Library, followed by a reception in the Book Store
79 Essex Street
New York, NY