42nd Street - 6th Avenue

Saul Leiter

Early Color

On View Through Summer 2008

Early Color, the Photographs of Saul Leiter are on view at the 42nd Street-Bryant Park B D F V station and feature Leiter's photographs from 1948 to 1960. The exhibition follows a new monograph, Saul Leiter Early Color, published by Steidl & Partners.

Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. He moved to New York City in 1946 to pursue his painting. Leiter's earliest black and white photographs show an extraordinary affinity for the medium, and by 1948 he began to work in color. Leiter's first exhibition of color photography was held in the 1950s at the Artist's Club, a meeting place for many of the Abstract Expressionist painters of that time. His work was an early use of color in so-called street photography, those observed moments of urban life, and these are the photographs featured in the Lightbox exhibition. The work has a subdued color and painterly quality that stands out among the work of his contemporaries. New Yorkers will appreciate the image of postmen on their rounds in the snow, passersby under the signage of the day, or riding by on a city bus.

Saul Leiter's work is in the collections of many major United States museums and collections. His work appears courtesy of the Howard Greenberg Gallery (howardgreenberg.com).

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