Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter ( born December 3, 1923 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, † November 26, 2013 in New York City, New York ) was an American photographer and painter. His early work in the 1940s and 1950s was an important contribution to the New York School.

Life

Saul conductor father was a noted Talmudic scholar and Saul studied with the aim to become a rabbi. At the age of 23 years, however, he left the religious school and moved to New York City to become an artist. Early Head had developed an interest in painting; he met the painter Richard Pousette-Dart, a representative of abstract expressionism. Pousette-Dart and W. Eugene Smith took him to photography; He experimented with a 35mm Leica Camera. With colleagues like Robert Frank and Diane Arbus, he designed with the photography of the 1940s and 1950s, which later became known as the New York School of Photographers, art historian Jane Livingston - which was not directly related to the same group of artists - designated.

Work

Conductor early black and white photographs show an extraordinary affinity for this medium. Since 1946, he has photographed in color. An invitation Edward Steichen to the exhibition The Family of Man (1951 ) did Saul Leiter unnoticed. Steichen then took in 1953 conductor B & W photos in the exhibition Always the Young Stranger at the Museum of Modern Art. In the late 1950s, published an art director Henry Wolf conductor colored fashion photographs in Esquire and later in Harper 's Bazaar. Director worked for the next twenty years as a fashion photographer and published in Show, Elle, British Vogue, Queen and Nova.

Head contribution to photography is important. His abstracted shapes and innovative compositions are of a painter stick quality that stands out from the work of other representatives of the New York School. His ambitions as a painter are reflected in its painted nudes, to he applied layers of gouache and watercolor.

A retrospective conductor factory found in 2012 in Hamburg in the Deichtorhallen instead.

Exhibitions

Single Exhibitions

  • 2013: Saul Leiter, Kunsthaus Wien
  • 2012: Saul Leiter, retrospective, Deichtorhallen
  • 2008: Saul Leiter, Foundation Henri Cartier -Bresson, Paris Saul Leiter, Galleria C arla Sozzani, Milan
  • Saul Leiter, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
  • Saul Leiter, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
  • Saul Leiter, Faggionato Fine Arts, London
  • Saul Leiter, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris
  • Saul Leiter, Color, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp
  • The Fashion Photographs of Saul Leiter, Festival of Fashion Photography, Hyeres, France
  • Saul Leiter, In Color. Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago

Group Exhibitions

  • 2007: Pieces of a City. Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York Mapping the City. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  • When Color What New. Art Institute of Chicago
  • New York Scene: Ted Croner, Sid Grossman, Saul Leiter and Leon Levinstein. Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
  • Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art 1940-2001, The Whitney Museum of American Art.
  • Always the Young Stranger. Museum of Modern Art, New York

Collections

  • The Addison Gallery of American Art Phillips Academy, Andover
  • Albertina, Vienna
  • Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
  • Milwaukee Art Museum
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  • Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis
  • National Museums in Berlin
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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