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. 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. 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. When the monograph Early Color was published in 2006, comprising work mostly done in the 1950s, it immediately established Leiter as a pioneer in colour photography and ignited a newfound worldwide interest in his career that continues to this day.Edited with text by Margit Erb, Michael ParilloĪ thrilling trove of newly discovered color works from the photographer celebrated for his pioneering painterly vision. To the rapid recording of the spontaneous unfolding of life on the street, Leiter adds an unconventional sense of form and a brilliantly improvisational, andįrequently abstract, use of true-to-life colors and tone. The lyricism and intensity of Leiter's vision come into full play in the artist's eloquent handling of colour, which is the focus of In Search of Beauty, the opening volume of the immersive Saul Leiter newsprint and ink series.
But the camera became the medium through which he managed to capture and interpret the life of New York City in multi-layered compositions, as well as in intimate scenes, as nobody had done before.
Leiter combined photography and painting all his life, and continued painting daily until his death in November 2013 at age 89.
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