CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 7/7/2018

In 'Saul Leiter: Early Color,' urban visual poetry that is by turns deeply affectionate, edgy and breathtakingly poignant

"Don't Walk" (1952) 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.) "Saul Leiter's vision is founded on a rapid eye for absorbing spontaneous events," Martin Harrison writes in Early Color. "Confronted by a dense web of data, fleeting moments in space and time, he employs an array of strategies—oblique framings, complex intersecting planes and ambiguous reflections—to distil an urban visual poetry that is by turns deeply affectionate, edgy and breathtakingly poignant. He takes risks—flouting conventions of camera technique and apparently indifferent to the limits of the light-gathering capacity of emulsions."