Saul Leiter

MONOGRAPHS
Harrison, Martin. Saul Leiter, Early Color, Steidl, Göttingen, Germany, 2006 (1st Edition)
Kozloff, Max and Robert Delpire. Saul Leiter, Photo Poche, Paris, 2007
Kozloff, Max. Saul Leiter, Photofile, London, Thames & Hudson, 2008
Sire, Agnès. Saul Leiter, Steidl, Göttingen, Germany 2008
Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Saul Leiter, Dancing in the Street, Chalon-sur-Saone, France, 2009
Harrison, Martin. Saul Leiter, Early Black and White, Steidl, Göttingen, Germany, 2009
Harrison, Martin. Saul Leiter, Early Black & White, HGG/Steidl, Göttingen, Germany, 2011
Leiter, Saul. Saul Leiter: Retrospective, Kehrer, Hamburg, 2012
Leiter, Saul. Sketchbook #1, HGG/Steidl, Göttingen, Germany, 2012
Leiter, Saul. Saul Leiter, Painted Photographs, HGG/Steidl, Göttingen, Germany, 2012
Early Black and White (I. Interior, II. Exterior), 2014 (1st Edition)
Saul Leiter
Early Color
2006
Published by
Steidl Publishers , Göttingen, Germany
2006 (1st Edition)
2008 (2nd Edition)
2011 (3rd Edition)
Steidl’s website: www.steidl.de
Hard cover with dust jacket
App. 20.5 x  20.9 cm
160 pages
2006 1ST EDITION & 1ST PRINTING
Published by Steidl, Göttingen 2006
Koproduktion mit der Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
App. 20.5 x  20.9 cm
160 pages Pages: 168
Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Dust Jacket
ISBN 10: 3865211399
ISBN 13: 9783865211392

Long forgotten, but fortunately rediscovered in the 2000s, the work of Saul
Leiter now has a well-deserved place in history of photography. German
publisher Steidl are to thank, publishing Saul Leiter’s early colour work in 2006.
Quickly selling out, it has run into many editions since and remains a popular title.
Saul Leiter’s poetic and carefully composed photographs were taken between
1948 and 1960. His gentle, muted palette is perfectly complemented by the
ageing of the photographic materials (ie. the vintage prints and negatives) from
which these reproductions were taken. Saul Leiter is often quite
physically removed from his subjects. After watching Tomas Leach’s documentary
‘In No Great Hurry: 13 lessons in Life with Saul Leiter’ I began to understand why.
While photographers ostensibly use the camera to capture the world outside and
away from them, it curious to see how often their work is a mirror of their own
soul.

Of all the books published of Saul Leiter’s work, the Steidl books remain the best.
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2008

Publishers by Steidl in 2008.

Hard cover with dust jacket
App. 20.9 x  24.5 cm
152 pages

Dust jacket back and front

Published on the occasion of Saul Leiter’s exhibition at
the Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris from
January 17th to April 13th 2008. For the first time we
see the photographer’s colour and black and white
work side by side in book form. Saul Leiter’s visual
universe is presented to us in amazing Steidl quality.
The layout thoughtfully leaves space for the images to
breathe, elegantly encouraging the viewer to dream.
Sounds a bit corny I know, but take a look for yourself.
A one and a half pages preface by Agnès Sir, the director
of the Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson.
A four page interview with curator Sam Stourdzé.
Published by Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson in
cooperation with Steidl
"This book is in its second printing, but even copies of
that haven't really made it to major markets. Leiter's
color work is beautiful and more important than it
looks... his contemporaries, many of photography's
greats like Helen Levitt - never even touched color."
 Retrospektive
2012

Publisher: Kehrer Verlag, Hamburg 2012

Pages: 300
Size: 22 x 27 cm (approx.)
Saul Leiter, photographs/paintings by Saul Leiter, essays/text by Dirk
Luckow, Ingo Taubhorn, Adam Harrison Levy, Ulrich Rüter, Vince Aletti,
Carrie Springer, Rolf Nobel, Brigitte Woischnik, Margit Erb, Saul Leiter,
296 pages, Kehrer, 2012

Saul Leiter (1923–2013) has only in recent years finally received his due as one of the
great pioneers of color photography. This can perhaps be attributed to the fact that
Leiter saw himself for a long time mainly as a painter. After coming to New York in 1946,
he exhibited alongside Abstract Expressionists like Willem de Kooning before beginning
in the late 1940s to take black and white photographs. Like Robert Frank or Helen Levitt,
he found his motifs on the streets of New York, but at the same time was visibly
interested in abstraction. Edward Steichen was one of the first to discover Leiter’s
photography, showing it in the 1950s in two important exhibitions at New York’s MoMA.
Back then color photography was regarded as »low art,« fit only for advertising. Leiter
accordingly worked primarily as a fashion photographer, for magazines such as Esquire
and Harper’s Bazaar. Nearly 40 years would go by before his extraordinary artistic color
photography was rediscovered. 
This book, first published to mark the first major retrospective of Leiter’s work in 2012,
features for the first time, in addition to his early black and white and color images, his
fashion photography, the overpainted nudes, as well as his paintings and sketchbooks.

"As a book for a retrospective, Saul Leiter shines. The book presents the photographer’s
work in probably the best possible way, with many example photography and essays, all
of which are very much readable and informative. [...] Highley recommended." (Joerg
Colberg)
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2013

Pages: 76
Publisher: Fifty One Fine Art Photography,
Antwerp 2013
Size: 15 x 21 cm (approx.)

Photographs by Saul Leiter

Interview with Roger Szmulewicz
Fifty One Fine Art Photography, 2013
Edition of 500 copies -- out of print --
Softcover
76 pp., 34 color illustrations
210 x 148 mm
ISBN 9789081772518
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2014

published by Steidl & Howard Greenberg

Library

Saul Leiter: Early Black and White -"The

distinctive iconography of Saul Leiter’s early
black and white photographs stems from his
profound response to the dynamic street life
of New York City in the late 1940s and 50s.
While this technique borrowed aspects of
the photodocumentary, Leiter’s imagery was
more shaped by his highly individual
reactions to the people and places he
encountered. Like a Magic Realist with a
camera, Leiter absorbed the mystery of the
city and poignant human experiences.”
Early Black and White
(I. Interior, II. Exterior)
2014
1. Edition 06/2014
Pages: 388
Place: Göttingen
Year: 2014
Publisher: Steidl
Size: 21 x 21 cm (approx.)

Two books, hardcover cloth bound in publisher slipcase.

Edited by Howard Greenberg and Bob Shamis with the
assitance of Margit Erg. Design by Gregory Wakabayshi,
adapted from "Early Color", designed by Martin Harrison,
texts by Max Kzloff for "I. Interior" and Jane Livingston for "II.
Exterior".
The distinctive iconography of Saul Leiter’s early black and
white photographs stems from his profound response to the
dynamic street life of New York City in the late 1940s and 50s.
While this technique borrowed aspects of the
photodocumentary, Leiter’s imagery was more shaped by his
highly individual reactions to the people and places he
encountered. Like a Magic Realist with a camera, Leiter
absorbed the mystery of the city and poignant human
experiences. Together with Early Color, also published by
Steidl, Early Black and White shows the impressive range of
Leiter’s early photography. (from the publisher)