The exhibition aims to show all facets of Leiter's work.

In his photographs the protagonists are often unfocused or shown only in part, the background photography of the borders, their urban landscapes are often seen through rain, snow or fogged windows. Leiter spent his whole life on the new streets of New York, the best parts of the scenes of his images have a two-block radius around the East Village apartment where he lived since the 1950s. The exhibition shows a fragment of this documentary, and the full movie can be seen at the Filmoteca de Cataluña on June 27 at 6.30pm. 'A window covered by raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person,' says the photographer in that documentary. In 2013, British director Tomas Leach premiered the documentary In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter, which offered an in-depth look at the life and work of Leiter.

This was followed by other monographs and international exhibitions, including the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation in Paris, the Elysée Museum in Lausanne, the Deichtorhallen in Hamburg, the London Photographer's Gallery, and Bunkamura in Tokyo. Several factors contributed to this neglect, one of which was Leiter's design for self-promotion.įinally, in 2006, a monograph by Leiter, Early Color, with images from the 40s and 50s was published, which instantly elevated him to the category of precursor and master of color photography. The artist exhibited some photographs in 1953 at the MoMA in New York as part of a collective exhibition organized by Edward Steichen, but apart from his successful career in the 60s and 70s in the world of fashion, his work remained in the original until the Date well little. The exhibition has been organized with the Saul Leiter Foundation of New York and curated by Roger Szmulewicz.įor six decades the work of Saul Leiter (Pittsburg, 1923 - New York, 2013) fell almost into oblivion. The Foto Colectania Foundation, thanks to the main collaboration of the Banco Sabadell Foundation, will inaugurate on June 29 the exhibition SAUL LEITER: In search of Beauty.

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