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All about Saul Leiter

Price:
2,500 yen (JPY)
Author(s):
Saul Leiter
With contributions by Motoyuki Shibata and the Saul Leiter Foundation
Language(s):
In Japanese and English
Size:
210 × 148 × 28 mm, 610 g
Pages:
312
Binding:
softcover
Release date:
20170515
ISBN:
978-4-86152-616-9 C0072

"An only-from-Japan exploration of the photographer’s art and philosophy.

Photography lovers the world over are now embracing Saul Leiter, who has enjoyed a remarkable revival since fading into relative obscurity in the 1980s. This collection takes a Japanese perspective into the secrets of his appeal, from his life philosophy and lyricism to masterful colors and compositions reminiscent of ukiyo-e.

Some two hundred works—including early street photographs, images for advertising, nudes, and paintings—cover Leiter’s career from the 1940s onward, accompanied by quotations from the artist himself that express his singular worldview.

Selected by artist Todd Hido as one of photo-eye online bookstore’s Best Books of 2017.

Saul Leiter was born in 1923 in Pittsburgh. He pioneered a painterly approach to color photography in the 1940s and produced covers for fashion magazines such as Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar before largely withdrawing from public attention in the 1980s. The publication of his first collection, Early Color, by Steidl in 2006 inspired an avid “rediscovery” that has since led to worldwide exhibitions and the release of a documentary, In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter (2014). He died in New York in 2013. "

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