Saul Leiter / Retrospective 1923-2023

"I look at the most insignificant things and find beauty in them", said Saul Leiter. This retrospective book brings together all the facets of his vast body of work. During a lifetime devoted to artistic creation, the photographer and painter Saul Leiter produced a corpus of over 20,000 photographic prints, 4,000 paintings and some 40,000 slides.

His erudition was astonishing - his sensibility was sharpened by decades of frenetic reading - and he practised a disconcerting self-mockery and was wary of success. Does this explain why his recognition came so late? Throughout this retrospective, five essays help us to understand this secret artist, shedding light on both the biography of this son of a rabbi and the coherence of his work. For this admirer of Vuillard and Bonnard sees painting and photography as two sides of the same coin.

From street photography to his images for fashion, from his female nudes to his paintings, this book based on his personal archives reveals an immense and unclassifiable body of work.

Published by Textuel
English

25,4 x 30,5 cm
352 pages
2023