Saul Leiter - House - 2008

Saul Leiter
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Photographs by Saul Leiter, Preface by Agnes Sire. Interview by Sam Stourdze.
Steidl & Partners, Gottingen, 2008. 144 pp., 50 color and 50 b&w photographs.

A beautiful photo book of American photographer Saul Leiter. As a writer Leiter traveled to New York to study painting in the late 1940s, but was impressed by the Henri Cartier-Bresson exhibition held at MoMA and began to become a photographer. In the 1950s, he was featured in Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, and was also active as a fashion photographer. However, he is a solitary photographer who has been gradually forgotten due to the slump in fashion magazines and changes in trends, and has spent his time in a world far from the front stage. This book is a collection of photographs published at the 2008 exhibition held at the Bresson Foundation in France. It consists of 151 color / monochrome illustrations taken in the 1950s. A number of works full of beauty just like paintings, rich in modeling and expressiveness. Here's a discreet and cool photographer's masterpiece that wants to capture the dripping drops and snow scenes on the windows rather than the beautiful models.

First Edition 2008.