The series has been awarded the first annual prize for distinguished photographic books by the International Center of Photography, New York. Each volume contains some sixty full-page reproductions printed in superb duotone, together with a critical introduction and a full bibliography. Handsome and collectable, the books are produced to the highest standards. PHOTOFILE brings together the best work of the world's greatest photographers, in an attractive format and at an easily affordable price. His mastery of colour is displayed in unconventional cityscapes in which reflections, transparency, complex framing and mirroring effects are married to a very personal printing style, creating a unique kind of urban view.
There he encountered Rothko and the Abstract Expressionists, and discovered street photography and the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. The product of the Saul Leiter Foundation's recent full-scale survey of the 80,000+ works left behind in the photographer's East Village studio at the time of his death, this superb 160-page gem selects 76 of the most evocative, poetic images from approximately 10,000 slides that have never before been published or seen by the public.
Born in Pittsburgh, he spent the 1940s and 1950s in New York, in an intensely creative environment where ideas from Europe and America came together and intermingled. Saul Leiter is one of those photographers who seek neither fame nor commercial success, despite their talent for imagemaking.
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