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Book synopsis

This is a reprint of the immensely successful Early Color (2008), which presented Leiter s remarkable body of colour work to the public for the first time in book form. Although Edward Steichen had exhibited some of Leiter s colour 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, yet 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 colour.

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Book category Books in English The arts Photography & photographs Individual photographers

• Full title: Saul Leiter
• Author: Martin Harrison
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9783865211392
• ISBN: 3865211399
• ID: 04336800
• Publisher: Steidl Publishers
• Weight: 744 g
• Dimensions: 212 × 212 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. June 2006

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