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Saul Leiter (1923-2013) took photographs and painted every day until just before his death at the age of 89, leaving behind a vast body of work. His source of inspiration was just a few blocks from his apartment on East 10th Street in Manhattan, and his colored depictions of the city of New York, a genius for finding beauty in ordinary places, have attracted widespread attention today.

On the other hand, his work as a fashion photographer for Harper's Bazaar in the 1960s and 1970s, his black and white landscapes, his "intimate portrait" nudes, and his painted nude photographs were rarely published during his lifetime.
This book, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Leiter's birth, is a definitive collection of Saul Leiter's works that draws on the vast archives managed by the Saul Leiter Foundation to bring to light the diversity of his expression, the source of his prototypes, and his complete picture, making full use of valuable materials such as unpublished works, contact sheets, and a photographic chronology of his life.

Saul Leiter
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1923. He began painting and photography in his teens. His paintings were highly praised at exhibitions. In 1946, he moved to New York, where he continued to paint and focused on commercial photography to make a living. In 1957, he began his career as a fashion photographer, working for magazines such as Esquire and Harper's Bazaar for 20 years. He started out working in black and white, but eventually began working in color as well. While he was busy traveling around as a popular commercial photographer, he also continued to take street photos. Most of his work was taken in downtown Manhattan, where he lived. When his first photo book, Early Color, was published by Steidl in 2006, his talent, which had already mastered color photography in the late 1940s, began to attract widespread attention. Amid growing reevaluation, he passed away in New York in 2013. Since his death, exhibitions have been held in art museums around the world, and many photo books have been published.

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