Forever Saul Leiter von Saul Leiter

A new collection of Saul Leiter's work, much of it published here for the first time.Saul Leiter remained relatively unsung until he was rediscovered by curators and critics in his early 80s, and his work has been drastically re-evaluated over the last two decades. Leiter's painterly images evoked the flow and rhythm of life on the mid-century streets of New York in luminous colour, at a time when his contemporaries were shooting in black and white. His complex and impressionistic photographs are as much about evoking an atmosphere as nailing the decisive moment. In recent years, Leiter has been in the spotlight more and more with a series of exhibitions and publications. His studio in New York's East Village, where he had lived since 1952 until his death in 2013, is now the home of the Saul Leiter Foundation. The foundation has begun a full-scale survey and organization of his more than 80,000 works, with the aim of compiling the 'complete' archive. This volume contains works discovered through this process, valuable documents that reveal the secrets of Saul Leiter's creation, unpublished works, popular colour works and black-and-white works that have not been published so far, as well as works that trace the memories of those closest to him taken in private. As Saul Leiter said, 'Photographs are often treated as capturing important moments, but they are really small fragments and memories of the world that never ends.' This is Forever Saul Leiter.

A new collection of Saul Leiter's work, much of it published here for the first time. Saul Leiter remained relatively unsung until he was rediscovered by curators and critics in his early 80s, and his work has been drastically re-evaluated over the last two decades. Leiter’s painterly images evoked the flow and rhythm of life on the mid-century streets of New York in luminous colour, at a time when his contemporaries were shooting in black and white. His complex and impressionistic photographs are as much about evoking an atmosphere as nailing the decisive moment. In recent years, Leiter has been in the spotlight more and more with a series of exhibitions and publications. His studio in New York's East Village, where he had lived since 1952 until his death in 2013, is now the home of the Saul Leiter Foundation. The foundation has begun a full-scale survey and organization of his more than 80,000 works, with the aim of compiling the ‘complete’ archive. This volume contains works discovered through this process, valuable documents that reveal the secrets of Saul Leiter's creation, unpublished works, popular colour works and black-and-white works that have not been published so far, as well as works that trace the memories of those closest to him taken in private. As Saul Leiter said, ‘Photographs are often treated as capturing important moments, but they are really small fragments and memories of the world that never ends.’ This is Forever Saul Leiter.

A new collection of Saul Leiter's work, much of it published here for the first time. Saul Leiter remained relatively unsung until he was rediscovered by curators and critics in his early 80s, and his work has been drastically re-evaluated over the last two decades. Leiter’s painterly images evoked the flow and rhythm of life on the mid-century streets of New York in luminous colour, at a time when his contemporaries were shooting in black and white. His complex and impressionistic photographs are as much about evoking an atmosphere as nailing the decisive moment. In recent years, Leiter has been in the spotlight more and more with a series of exhibitions and publications. His studio in New York's East Village, where he had lived since 1952 until his death in 2013, is now the home of the Saul Leiter Foundation. The foundation has begun a full-scale survey and organization of his more than 80,000 works, with the aim of compiling the ‘complete’ archive. This volume contains works discovered through this process, valuable documents that reveal the secrets of Saul Leiter's creation, unpublished works, popular colour works and black-and-white works that have not been published so far, as well as works that trace the memories of those closest to him taken in private. As Saul Leiter said, ‘Photographs are often treated as capturing important moments, but they are really small fragments and memories of the world that never ends.’ This is Forever Saul Leiter.

Eine neue Sammlung von Saul Leiters Arbeiten, von denen ein Grossteil hier zum ersten Mal veröffentlicht wird. Saul Leiter blieb bis zu seiner Wiederentdeckung durch Kuratoren und Kritiker in seinen frühen 80ern relativ unbekannt, und seine Arbeiten wurden in den letzten zwei Jahrzehnten drastisch neu bewertet. Leiters malerische Bilder riefen den Fluss und Rhythmus des Lebens auf den Strassen New Yorks zur Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts in leuchtenden Farben hervor, zu einer Zeit, als seine Zeitgenossen in Schwarz-Weiss fotografierten. Seine komplexen und impressionistischen Fotografien handeln ebenso sehr davon, eine Atmosphäre zu erzeugen, wie den entscheidenden Moment festzuhalten. In den letzten Jahren stand Leiter zunehmend im Rampenlicht mit einer Reihe von Ausstellungen und Veröffentlichungen. Sein Atelier im East Village von New York, wo er seit 1952 bis zu seinem Tod 2013 lebte, ist nun die Heimat der Saul Leiter Foundation. Die Stiftung hat mit einer umfassenden Erfassung und Organisation seiner mehr als 80.000 Werke begonnen, mit dem Ziel, das vollständige Archiv zusammenzustellen. Dieser Band enthält Werke, die im Rahmen dieses Prozesses entdeckt wurden, wertvolle Dokumente, die die Geheimnisse von Saul Leiters Schaffen offenbaren, unveröffentlichte Werke, beliebte Farbwerke und Schwarz-Weiss-Werke, die bisher nicht veröffentlicht wurden, sowie Werke, die die Erinnerungen der ihm Nahestehenden in privaten Momenten festhalten. Wie Saul Leiter sagte: „Fotografien werden oft als Festhalten wichtiger Momente betrachtet, aber sie sind wirklich kleine Fragmente und Erinnerungen an eine Welt, die niemals endet.“ Dies ist Forever Saul Leiter.