Early Color
Saul Leiter
Early Color
Photographs: Saul Leiter
Text: Martin Harrison
Publisher: Steidl
176 pages
Year: 2006
Comments: Hardcover under dust jacket, 20,5 x 20,5 cm. Text in english. First edition, 2006. In very good condition other than edge wear.
The semi-mythical notion of the ‘New York street photographer’ was born at the same time, in the late-1940s. But Leiter’s sensibility — comparable to the European intimism of Bonnard, a painter he greatly admires — placed him outside the visceral confrontations with urban anxiety associated with photographers such as Robert Frank or William Klein. Instead, for him the camera provided an alternative way of seeing, of framing events and interpreting reality. He sought out moments of quiet humanity in the Manhattan maelstrom, forging a unique urban pastoral from the most unlikely of circumstances.
None of Leiter’s contemporaries, with the single and partial exception of Helen Levitt, assembled a comparable body of work in color. The lyricism and intensity of his vision come into fullest play in his eloquent handling of color: to the rapid recording of the spontaneous unfolding of life on the street, Leiter adds an unconventional sense of form and a brilliantly improvisational, and frequently almost abstract, use of found colors and tones. Leiter’s visual language of fragmentation, ambiguity and contingency is evoked in Saul Leiter: Early Color by one hundred subtle, painterly images that stretched the boundaries of photography in the second half of the twentieth-century.
( source : steidl )
more books by Saul Leiter
-
Early Color (sealed copy)
by Saul Leiter
sold -
I don't mean a thing
by Saul Leiter
sold -
Women
by Saul Leiter
sold -
It Don't Mean A Thing (Reprint edition)
by Saul Leiter
sold -
It Don't Mean A Thing (Reprint edition)
by Saul Leiter
Euro 60
more books tagged »street photography« | >> see all
-
The Mechanical Retina on My Fingertips
by Issei Suda
sold -
Chihei Vol.6
by Collective
Euro 500 -
Yau Ma Tei
by Chan Wai Kwong
sold -
MILANO, ITALIA
by Mario Carrieri
sold -
OUT OF THE DARKNESS (Signed and numbered with print)
by David Nissen
Euro 55 -
Shinjuku 1965-97
by Katsumi Watanabe
sold
more books tagged »steidl« | >> see all
-
JUST LIKE A SHADOW
by Jonas Mekas
sold -
William Eggleston: Chromes (SIGNED)
by William Eggleston
Euro 1500 -
The Master IV (Sealed)
by Juergen Teller
sold -
Haunts (SIGNED)
by JH Engström
sold -
AMERICAN REALITIES (SIGNED)
by Joakim Eskildsen
sold -
City Diary
by Anders Petersen
sold
more books tagged »saul leiter« | >> see all
more books tagged »american« | >> see all
-
Candlestick Point
by Lewis Baltz
Euro 200 -
Unto Dust
by Greg Miller
sold -
Cock Fight Dance
by Sol Lewitt
sold -
Gordon Parks A Harlem Family 1967
by Gordon Parks
Euro 180 -
Attention Servicemember
by Ben Brody
sold -
Bridge (NUMBERED, edt of 15)
by Joanna Epstein
Euro 35
more books tagged »color« | >> see all
-
Dalston Anatomy (SIGNED)
by Lorenzo Vitturi
sold -
Fiume
by Guido Guidi
sold -
FRED HERZOG PHOTOGRAPHS
by Fred Herzog
Euro 120 -
ALICE IN LONDONLAND (+ a signed copy of Zine hooked on horses)
by Valerie Phillips
sold -
Varianti
by Guido Guidi
sold -
Polaroid - L'Opera completa 1979-1983
by Luigi Ghirri
sold
Books from the Virtual Bookshelf josefchladek.com