青幻舎 SEIGENSHA Art Publishing

Today Saul Leiter enjoys high acclaim around the world, including in Japan. His street photography, in particular, enthralls us with its evocative juxtapositions of the Manhattan cityscape with New Yorkers in unguarded moments, captured as though Leiter had himself become one with this neighborhood where he lived until his death.

After Leiter passed away in 2013, the wife-and-husband team of Margit Erb and Michael Parillo, who had worked closely with him, established the Saul Leiter Foundation and embarked on the task of digitally archiving the mountain of more than 10,000 slides that he had left behind in his studio. This book presents the first fruits of that ongoing project in the form of seventy-six street photographs selected from those never-before-seen slides.

Featured
Views of Leiter’s studio and equipment
Data index providing information on mount, film type, and label on source box (handwritten by Leiter) for each work
Accounts by Erb of the joys and struggles of the archive project
An essay by Parillo that includes revealing testimony by Leiter’s print technicians on his sense of color

The original edition of this book was published in the United Kingdom in 2022 by Thames & Hudson Limited.
The Japanese edition is available for purchase only within Japan.