Saul Leiter
The Centennial Retrospective
WW Norton · Print & ebook · November 21, 2023
Celebrating the centennial of Saul Leiter’s birth, the official retrospective of a revolutionary figure in twentieth-century photography.
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- Who it’s for
- Photographs, paintings, sketchbooks, and painted photographs span Leiter’s six decades of work.
- Themes
- Twentieth-century photography, New York street photography, Abstract watercolor painting
- Genres
- Photographer Monographs, Artists' Lives, Artist Monographs
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Celebrating the centennial of Saul Leiter’s birth, the official retrospective of a revolutionary figure in twentieth-century photography. Saul Leiter photographed and painted nearly every day for over sixty years, amassing an enormous archive, most of which remained unseen during his lifetime. Finding inspiration within a few blocks of his apartment in lower Manhattan, he was a master at discovering beauty in the most ordinary places.
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Celebrated today for his evocative color photographs of New York in the 1950s and 1960s, which were unknown in their day, Leiter also found success as a fashion photographer for Harper’s Bazaar. All the while he was shooting black-and-white street scenes on his daily walks, and nudes and intimate portraits back home, while continuing his painting explorations with abstract watercolors, whimsical sketchbooks, and painted photographs. Created in collaboration with the Saul Leiter Foundation, this definitive monograph brings together these diverse yet interconnected bodies of work—including much that was previously unpublished—to reveal the complete artist for the first time.
Leiter’s Manhattan Blocks
Photographs, paintings, sketchbooks, and painted photographs span Leiter’s six decades of work.
Come here for
- Color photographs of New York in the 1950s and 1960s
- Fashion photography for Harper’s Bazaar
Expect
- Black-and-white street scenes made on daily walks
- Nudes and intimate portraits made at home
Where it sits
| Photographer Monographs | 87% |
|---|---|
| Artist Monographs | 44% |
| Artists' Lives | 34% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Photographer Monographs
- Street Photography
- Authors
- Margit Erb, Michael Parillo
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Published
- November 21, 2023
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Twentieth-century photography · New York street photography · Abstract watercolor painting
- Reading lane
- Photographer Monographs