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The Unseen Saul Leiter

D.A.P.
Edited with text by Margit Erb, Michael Parillo.

A thrilling trove of newly discovered color works from the photographer celebrated for his pioneering painterly vision

Hbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 160 pgs / 75 color. | 10/11/2022 | In stock
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Saul Leiter: In My Room

STEIDL
Foreword by Robert Benton.

Leiter’s painterly, ravishing, yet informal nudes from the 1940s to the 1970s

Clth, 8 x 8 in. / 192 pgs / 85 bw. | 7/17/2018 | Out of stock
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Saul Leiter: Early Black and White

STEIDL
Introduction by Martin Harrison.

Slip, clth, 2 vols, 8 x 8 in. / 388 pgs / 100 tritone. | 10/31/2009 | Out of stock
$90.00


Saul Leiter: Early Color

STEIDL
Introduction by Martin Harrison.

A beloved photobook classic from the pioneer of color photography

Clth, 8 x 8 in. / 176 pgs / 100 color. | 1/15/2006 | Out of stock
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The Unseen Saul LeiterThe Unseen Saul Leiter

Published by D.A.P..
Edited with text by Margit Erb, Michael Parillo.

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.
Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. He pioneered a painterly approach to color photography in the 1940s and produced covers for fashion magazines such as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, before largely withdrawing from public attention in the 1980s. The publication of his first collection, Early Color, by Steidl in 2006, inspired an avid “rediscovery” that led to worldwide exhibitions and the release of a documentary, In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter (2014). He died in New York in 2013.



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Saul Leiter: In My RoomSaul Leiter: In My Room

Published by Steidl.
Foreword by Robert Benton.

The fruit of fantastic recent discoveries from Saul Leiter’s vast archive, In My Room provides an in-depth study of the nude, through intimate photographs of the women Leiter knew. Showing deeply personal interior spaces, often illuminated by the lush natural light of the artist’s studio in New York City’s East Village, these black-and-white images reveal a unique type of collaboration between Leiter and his subjects. In the 1970s Leiter planned to make a book of nudes, but the project was never realized in his lifetime. Now, we get a first-time look at this body of work, which was begun on Leiter’s arrival in New York in 1946 and honed over the next two decades. Leiter, who was also a painter, allows abstract elements into the photographs and often shows the influence of his favorite artists, including Bonnard, Vuillard and Matisse. Leiter, who painted and took pictures prolifically up to his death, worked in relative obscurity until he entered his eighties. He preferred to be left alone, and resisted any type of explanation or analysis of his work. With In My Room, Leiter ushers viewers into his private world while retaining his strong sense of mystery.
Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. In 1946 he moved to New York to become a painter, but was encouraged to pursue photography by the photographic experimentation and influence of his friend, the Abstract Expressionist Richard Pousette-Dart. Leiter subsequently enjoyed a successful career as a fashion photographer spanning three decades, and his images were published in magazines such as Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, Elle and British Vogue. His work is held in many prestigious private and public collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Leiter died in November 2013.

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Catalog: SPRING 2016 p. 28   

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Saul Leiter: All about Saul LeiterSaul Leiter: All about Saul Leiter

Published by RM/Seigensha.
Text by Margit Erb, Pauline Vermare, Motoyuki Shibata.

Photography lovers the world over are now embracing Saul Leiter, who has enjoyed a remarkable revival since fading into relative obscurity in the 1980s. In this gorgeously produced volume—the Japanese edition of which was selected by photographer Todd Hido as one of Photo-eye online bookstore's Best Books of 2017—some 200 works, from early street photographs and images for advertising to nudes and paintings, cover Leiter's career from the 1940s onward. These are accompanied by quotations from the artist himself that express his singular worldview.



Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. He pioneered a painterly approach to color photography in the 1940s and produced covers for fashion magazines such as Vogue and Harper's Bazaar, before largely withdrawing from public attention in the 1980s. The publication of his first collection, Early Color, by Steidl in 2006, inspired an avid "rediscovery" that has since led to worldwide exhibitions and the release of a documentary,
In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter (2014). He died in New York in 2013.

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Paperback, 6 x 8.5 in. / 312 pgs / 230 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2018 p. 23   

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In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul LeiterIn No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter

Published by Zeitgeist Films.
By Tomas Leach.

In No Great Hurry is a fascinating documentary on one of the twentieth century's most beloved street photographers, Saul Leiter (1923–2013). Leiter—a contemporary of Diane Arbus and Richard Avedon—could have been celebrated as the great pioneer of color photography long ago (his fashion work was published in Harper's Bazaar and Esquire), but he was never driven by the lure of conventional success. Instead he preferred to drink coffee and photograph in his own way, amassing an archive of gorgeous work piled high in his New York City apartment. Intimate and beautifully rendered, In No Great Hurry follows Leiter as he deals with the triple burden of clearing a houseful of memories, becoming world-famous in his eighties, and fending off a pesky filmmaker.

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Catalog: SPRING 2015 p. 113   

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Saul Leiter: Early Black and WhiteSaul Leiter: Early Black and White

Published by Steidl.
Introduction by Martin Harrison.

The distinctive iconography of Saul Leiter's early black-and-white photographs stems from his profound response to the dynamic street life of New York City in the late 1940s and 50s. While this technique borrowed aspects of the photo-documentary, Leiter's imagery was more shaped by his highly individual reactions to the people and places he encountered. Like a Magic Realist with a camera, Leiter absorbed the mystery of the city and poignant human experiences. Together with Early Color, also published by Steidl, the two volumes comprising Early Black and White show the impressive range of Leiter's early photography.

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Slip, clth, 2 vols, 8 x 8 in. / 388 pgs / 100 tritone.

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Catalog: FALL 2007 p. 13   

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Saul Leiter: Early ColorSaul Leiter: Early Color

Published by Steidl.
Introduction by Martin Harrison.

This is a reprint of the immensely successful Early Color (2008), which presented Saul Leiter's remarkable body of color work to the public for the first time in book form. Although Edward Steichen had exhibited some of Leiter's color photography at The Museum of Modern Art in 1953, it remained virtually unknown to the world thereafter. Leiter moved to New York in 1946 to become a painter, but through his friendship with Richard Pousette-Dart he quickly recognized the creative potential of photography. Leiter continued to paint, exhibiting with Philip Guston and Willem de Kooning, but the camera remained his ever-present means of recording life in the metropolis. None of Leiter's contemporaries, with the partial exception of Helen Levitt, assembled a comparable body of work: subtle, often abstract compositions of lyrical, eloquent color.



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Clth, 8 x 8 in. / 176 pgs / 100 color.

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Catalog: FALL 2005 p. 13   

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