Saul Leiter: Early Color

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Forever Saul Leiteropens at the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo, with accompanying book by Shogakukan. When the coronavirus pandemic closes museums and galleries, two online exhibitions are launched, Saul Leiter: Discoveries from the Slide Archiveat 28VignonStreet.com and The World Is Full of Endless Things: Saul Leiter’s New Yorkat HowardGreenbergGallery.com. When I am listening to Vivaldi or Japanese music or making spaghetti at 3 in the morning and realize that I don’t have the proper sauce for it, fame is of no use.”

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s paintings and personal effects are displayed in the group exhibition A Specific Eye: Seven Collectionsat Demisch Danant, New York. The nudes exhibition Saul Leiter: East 10th Street, with a book by the same name, opens at Gallery Fifty One, Antwerp. Two small shows are mounted in Japan, Saul Leiter: Lanesville, 1958at Leica Gallery Tokyo and Saul Leiter: Nudeat Leica Gallery Kyoto. circa)Begins working with color slide film, including Kodachrome and Anscochrome. Works primarily with three cameras, Argus C3, Auto Graflex Junior, and early Rolleiflex. The Streets of New York, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. 2005 Saul Leiter: Early Color Work, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, USA (solo) 2004 Saul Leiter: In Color, Staton Greenberg Gallery, Santa Barbara, USA (solo) 2002 New York: Capital of Photography, Jewish Museum, New York, USA

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Teich, Mitch. “Photographer Saul Leiter in His Own Words: Believing in the Beauty of Simple Things.” WUWM , www.wuwm.com/post/photographer-saul-leiter-his-own-words-believing-beauty-simple-things#stream/0. For me, I enjoyed playing with reflections like Leiter did as a tool for abstraction. For example, I found a CD in the car I was in and played with that in the reflection of the car window. I was able to capture the CD in the window, which I thought created an abstract theme because it was unclear where the circle was coming from in the window. I also tried to use overpasses and the lines of my car as a way to frame my photographs like Leiter did to only focus on certain parts of the scenery. I think using the overpasses along with the lines of the car to create these horizons was effective. Saul Leiter: In Search of Beautyopens at Foto Colectania in Barcelona and travels to Patio Herreriano in Valladolid, Spain. Saul Leiter/David Lynch/Helmut Newton: Nudes opens at the Helmut Newton Foundation in Berlin. The books In My Room(Steidl) and Women(Space Shower) are released, along with Spanish, French, Korean, and North American editions of All About Saul Leiter. The Saul Leiter Foundation begins examining and cataloging Leiter’s archive of color slides. One technique that I found particularly interesting is the use of mirrors and reflections to distort reality and instill confusion. He used his camera as a means to start a conversation about what is real and what is not. For example, by playing with the relationship between reality and imagination, Leiter is able to highlight the beautiful things about New York City we don’t see on our own. His use of color film also interacts with these distortions because we don’t know what is real versus what might have changed from the expired film. These mirror and color techniques clearly are central to Leiter’s powerful piece “Early Color.”

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I may be old-fashioned. But I believe there is such a thing as a search for beauty – a delight in the nice things in the world. And I don’t think one should have to apologize for it.”I really enjoyed reading your concluding assessment of Leiter and his kind of loneliness that also allows for connections. Your reference to Levitt’s understanding of Jewishness as not exclusive works very well for Leiter, especially in the way he seems to invite viewers to participate with him in his exploration of the world of color as seen through the camera’s lens. I agree that the digital has changed a lot and viewing images through our phones in the palms of our hands makes for a different engagement with the world around us. The three photos I have chosen to include portray his use of abstraction to distort reality while also illustrating the isolated, private lives of the people on the streets of New York. The photograph Mondrian Worker evokes this picturesque, painting feel because he not only uses this flattening, layering technique which gives it a painting look, but he also titles it after Piet Mondrian, an abstract painter known for his work with shapes and color. The photo of the woman waiting also utilizes abstraction by including the metal bars in front of the woman standing below. It creates a frame for the photograph, creating a new perspective for the viewer to look through. Lastly, the photograph of the window is another example of an abstract photograph because it distorts reality because it is hard for the viewer to really know understand what they are looking at. exhibited at Ten-Thirty Gallery, Cleveland; Outlines Gallery, Pittsburgh; Gump’s department store, San Francisco; and Arts and Crafts Center, Pittsburgh.

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Maher, James. “Saul Leiter – A Master of Color Photography.” New York Fine Art Photography and Portraiture Services , James Maher Photography, 7 Jan. 2019, www.jamesmaherphotography.com/street_photography/saul-leiter/. I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. I was always very happy that way. Being ignored is a great privilege. That is how I think I learned to see what others do not see and to react to situations differently. I simply looked at the world, not really prepared for anything.” Leiter was born in 1923 in Pittsburgh to a Jewish family in which the men found their calling in the rabbinate. His father, a theological scholar and “a light in the diaspora,” as Leiter put it in the 2013 documentary In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter, was a leader in the city’s Orthodox Jewish community. Leiter was meant to continue that lineage, but he left his Cleveland seminary at age 23 and took a bus to New York City to begin his career in art. to Berlin to give talk and slide show at C/O Berlin, in conjunction with Photography Days festival.Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, December 3. Parents are Wolf Leiter (born Poland) and Regina née Goldberg (born Austria). exhibition Saul Leiter: Gouaches and Color Slides at Tanager Gallery. Around this time Leiter gives a slide talk about his color work at the Club, an East Village art space. Thames & Hudson publishes The Unseen Saul Leiter, featuring newly discovered work from Leiter’s slide archive. Photographs from Florence and Damien Bachelot’s collection are shown at Villa Medici, Rome. This is simultaneously inspiring and relaxing. Looking through his work, cutting out all the distractions, you can feel the medium at its purest. Photographer Saul Leiter: A Retrospective, Leiter’s first solo exhibition in Japan, opens at Tokyo’s Bunkamura Museum of Art, with accompanying book, All About Saul Leiter, published by Seigensha. The exhibition travels in Japan for the next two years.