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Saul Leiter (Photofile)

by Max Kozloff

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A compact introduction to Saul Leiter’s color-driven urban photography

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A compact introduction to Saul Leiter’s color-driven urban photography

This revised Photofile volume places Saul Leiter within the creative crosscurrents of New York’s East Village, where his encounters with abstract expressionism and street photography informed a distinctive visual approach. The book centers on his unconventional city views: images shaped by reflections, transparent surfaces, layered framing, and mirroring effects. Color is a key thread, not simply a descriptive element but part of how Leiter reconfigures the urban scene. With an introduction by Max Kozloff, the volume offers a focused monograph on a photographer whose work joined street-based observation with an individual approach to printing and composition.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in individual photographer monographs
  • Photographers studying color, framing, and reflection in urban images
  • Fans of New York street photography and postwar art contexts

Themes

Color photographyUrban observationNew York CityStreet photographyReflections and framing

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Book overview

Saul Leiter was one of those photographers who sought neither fame nor commercial success, despite his talent for image-making.

Born in Pittsburgh, he spent his entire adult life in New York City's East Village, in an intensely creative environment where ideas from Europe and America came together and intermingled. There he encountered Mark Rothko and the abstract expressionists and discovered street photography and the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. His mastery of color 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.

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