All About Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter was one of the great pioneers of colour photography — a painter who turned to the camera in 1940s New York and produced, in the streets and windows of the city, images of such beauty and such formal intelligence that they helped establish colour as a serious photographic medium at a time when most serious photographers still worked in black and white. His photographs of New York in the 1940s and 1950s — many of them unseen for decades because Leiter, characteristically, never pushed them — are now recognised as among the most important in the history of the medium.

This comprehensive Thames & Hudson monograph presents the complete Leiter vision — photographs, paintings, and the life of an artist who refused celebrity with the same completeness with which he pursued beauty. Published by Thames & Hudson.