Saul Leiter
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.54 (885 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3868282580 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-23 |
| Language | : | German |
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For the past 15 years, he has worked on a wide range of historical and arts films, primarily for the BBC. Brigitte Woischnik is owner of the agency Foto Factory in Munich, Germany. She has co-curated important photo exhibitions like "Lillian Bassman and Paul Himmel" for the Museum Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany.Ingo Ta
For the past 15 years, he has worked on a wide range of historical and arts films, primarily for the BBC. Today he reviews photography exhibitions for The New Yorker’s "Goings on About Town" section.Adam Harrison Levy is a writer and freelance documentary film producer and director. He teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York.. He was the art editor of the Village Voice from 1994 to 2005 and the paper’s photo critic for twenty years. About the AuthorBrigitte Woischnik is owner of the age
A Beautiful, Lovely Book! Why, oh why did it have to take so long? Had the Post-War Baby Boomer Generation been aware of Leiter in the sixties and seventies, when so many of us caught the fire, selected and clung to our photo-heros for decades, and started shooting, the history of photography would likely have looked rather different.The Steidl. Great addition for fans of Saul's work Mark B. Kinsman My initial impression of the book was mixed. The images of his photos and his paintings are well done and offer a further glimpse into the artist's work. Much of the accompanying articles are in German - which was a bit disappointing, only because it was not mentioned in the book description on Amazon and I don't speak. "Quiet Glory Below 1Quiet Glory Below 14th Street W. White Like most of us, I discovered Saul Leiter very recently, via the documentary "In No Great Hurry" when it was first shown in the UK on BBC4 in April. I was initially wholly charmed by the man, and then I saw his photographs. The first serious use of color in fine art photography is attributed mostly to three other photo. th Street" according to W. White. Like most of us, I discovered Saul Leiter very recently, via the documentary "In No Great Hurry" when it was first shown in the UK on BBCQuiet Glory Below 14th Street W. White Like most of us, I discovered Saul Leiter very recently, via the documentary "In No Great Hurry" when it was first shown in the UK on BBC4 in April. I was initially wholly charmed by the man, and then I saw his photographs. The first serious use of color in fine art photography is attributed mostly to three other photo. in April. I was initially wholly charmed by the man, and then I saw his photographs. The first serious use of color in fine art photography is attributed mostly to three other photo
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. 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. 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 photographs. 1923 in Pittsburgh) has only in recent years received his due as one of the great pioneers of color photography. Nearly forty years would go by before his extraordinary artistic color photography was rediscovered.This book, published to mark the first major retrospective of Leiter's work anywhere in the world, features for the first time, in addition to his early black and white an