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SAUL LEITER

FRANKFURT AM MAIN, DECEMBER

SAUL LEITER. RETROSPEKTIVE

December 13, 2014 – March 1

Opening: Friday, December 12,

Press preview: December 12, 2014,

From December 13, 2014 to March 1, 2015 Fotografie Forum Frankfurt

of the photographer and painter Saul Leiter

brings together a marvellous combination

photography, fashion images, paintings

he made throughout the last years of his life,

East Village. Saul Leiter died shortly before

Ingo Taubhon and Brigitte Woischnik

Deichtorhallen Hamburg and the Saul Leiter Foundation.

Pioneer of colour photography

Saul Leiter was born in 1923 in Pittsburgh and it was not until a few years ago that his work

received due recognition for its pioneering role in the emergence of colo

as 1946, and thus long before the representatives of “New

(such as William Eggleston and Stephen Shore) he was one of the first to use colo

for his personal work, despite it being

Photography becomes painting

Saul Leiter always saw himself as both

photographs he tended toward

deep black surfaces caused by shadows take up as much as three quarters of the photographs.

Often Passers-by are not as individuals, but as blurred imp

glass or wedged between house walls and traffic signs. He e

the abstract and the figurative in his paintings and photographs. Saul Leiter’s

photography, is actually painting that has become photography, as Rolf Nobel writes in the book

accompanying the exhibition.

Urban photographic aesthetics

In his photographs, the genres of street life, portraiture, still

photography meld into a mixture

umbrellas, were found in the direct vicinity of his apartment in New York, where he

almost 60 years. Characteristically h

blurring of movement and the reduction in

often deliberate avoidance of the light

photographing through windows

colour, fuelled by a semi-real, semi

discovered modern master of colo

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BER 2014

TIVE

March 1, 2015

, 2014, 7 pm

, 2014, 11 pm

From December 13, 2014 to March 1, 2015 Fotografie Forum Frankfurt presents a retrospective

the photographer and painter Saul Leiter. The exhibition includes more than

combination of his early black-and-white and colo

, paintings, and his sketchbooks. Also on view are the works

the last years of his life, on the streets in his neighbourhood

died shortly before his 90th birthday in 2013. This exhibition

Brigitte Woischnik is a cooperation with the House of Photography,

and the Saul Leiter Foundation.

r photography

was born in 1923 in Pittsburgh and it was not until a few years ago that his work

received due recognition for its pioneering role in the emergence of colour photography. As early

before the representatives of “New Color Photography

(such as William Eggleston and Stephen Shore) he was one of the first to use colo

despite it being avoided by most artists of the day.

Photography becomes painting

himself as both painter and photographer. In his painting

abstraction with an emphasis on surfaces. In many works

surfaces caused by shadows take up as much as three quarters of the photographs.

as individuals, but as blurred impressions of colour, behind panes of

between house walls and traffic signs. He expresses a fluid transition between

the abstract and the figurative in his paintings and photographs. Saul Leiter’s

is actually painting that has become photography, as Rolf Nobel writes in the book

Urban photographic aesthetics

In his photographs, the genres of street life, portraiture, still lives, fashion and architectural

meld into a mixture. His subjects, such as shop windows, passers

in the direct vicinity of his apartment in New York, where he

Characteristically his images are created by the absence of clear detail

blurring of movement and the reduction in the depth of field, the compensation

deliberate avoidance of the light. These aspects as well as a sense of alienation caused by

photographing through windows or the use of reflections all blend to create a picture

real, semi-abstract urban space. These works epitomize this

discovered modern master of colour photography of the 1940s and 1950s.

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presents a retrospective

more than 100 works and

and colour street

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neighbourhood in New York’s

. This exhibition curated by

House of Photography,

was born in 1923 in Pittsburgh and it was not until a few years ago that his work

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Photography” in the 1970s

(such as William Eggleston and Stephen Shore) he was one of the first to use colour photography

. In his paintings and in his

In many works, large

surfaces caused by shadows take up as much as three quarters of the photographs.

, behind panes of

a fluid transition between

the abstract and the figurative in his paintings and photographs. Saul Leiter’s very unique street

is actually painting that has become photography, as Rolf Nobel writes in the book

, fashion and architectural

ws, passers-by, cars, signs and

in the direct vicinity of his apartment in New York, where he lived for

of clear details, the

the compensation for low light or the

alienation caused by

picture language of

epitomize this re-


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SAUL LEITER

From a self-taught artist to a fashion photographe

Saul Leiter (*1923 in Pittsburgh, †2013 in New York)

began painting as a teenager at the end of the 1940s. His family did not support him in his

artistic endeavours as his father, a renowned Talmudic rabbi and scholar, always hoped his son

Saul would one day follow him in the family tradition and become a rabbi. L

but by no means uneducated. Through reading he advanced his

art constantly. In this way, he could be certain that his own thought and artistic efforts were

related to a historical context, as Carrie Spr

points out in the catalogue.

In 1946, shortly after he had moved to New York, Leiter got to know

Dart, who introduced him to photography, a medium that Leiter

made his own. Leiter soon resolved to make use of photography not only as a means of making

art but as a way of earning a living.

pronounced sense of elegance,

In the 1950s, “LIFE” magazine

images. His photographs were included

curated by Edward Steichen at the Museum of Modern Art. From 1958 to 1967, Leiter worked for

“Harper’s Bazaar”. All in all he was to spend some 20 years photographing for both the

magazines and more recent ones, such as “Esquire”

“Queen” and “Nova”.

“Saul Leiter. Retrospektive” at Fotografie Forum Frankfurt

This exhibition is a cooperation of

Fotografie Forum Frankfurt. This extensi

Ingo Taubhorn and Brigitte Woischnik

Margit Erb, Director Saul Leiter Foundation.

2012, where it then travelled to

Publication

The accompanying book to this exhibition, “Saul Leiter

Verlag, edited by Ingo Taubhorn

by Vince Aletti, Margit Erb, Adam

Taubhorn and Brigitte Woischnik

illustrations, in German/English for 58 Euro.

Opening

The exhibition “Saul Leiter. Retrospek

Opening speakers are Celina Lunsford, Artistic Director at Fotografie Forum Frankfurt;

Loulakis, Chairman of the Board

Curator House of Photography/Deichtorhallen Hamburg

(curators of the exhibition).



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taught artist to a fashion photographer

(*1923 in Pittsburgh, †2013 in New York) discovered his passion for art early

painting as a teenager at the end of the 1940s. His family did not support him in his


Saul would one day follow him in the family tradition and become a rabbi. Leiter was self

Through reading he advanced his knowledge and understanding

In this way, he could be certain that his own thought and artistic efforts were

historical context, as Carrie Springer, curator at the Whitney Museum in New York,

In 1946, shortly after he had moved to New York, Leiter got to know the artist

Dart, who introduced him to photography, a medium that Leiter was fond of and


art but as a way of earning a living. Thanks to his good eye, his playful sense of humour, and his

pronounced sense of elegance, Leiter swiftly emerged as an extraordinary fashion photographer.

In the 1950s, “LIFE” magazine published photo spreads of Saul Leiter’s first black

His photographs were included in the exhibition “Always the Young Strangers” (1953)

en at the Museum of Modern Art. From 1958 to 1967, Leiter worked for

“Harper’s Bazaar”. All in all he was to spend some 20 years photographing for both the

magazines and more recent ones, such as “Esquire”, “Harper’s”, “Show”, “Elle”, “British Vo

at Fotografie Forum Frankfurt

is a cooperation of the House of Photography at Deichtorhallen

This extensive retrospective of Saul Leiter‘s oeuvre was curated by

Brigitte Woischnik in close cooperation with the artist before he died and

Margit Erb, Director Saul Leiter Foundation. This exhibition was first exhibited in Hamburg in

, where it then travelled to Kunsthaus Wien.

to this exhibition, “Saul Leiter - Retrospektive”, published by

Ingo Taubhorn and Brigitte Woischnik, designed by Detlev Pusch,

Adam Harrison Levy, Rolf Nobel, Ulrich Rüter, Carrie Springer, Ingo

nd Brigitte Woischnik. It is available in hardcover with 296 pages and 155

illustrations, in German/English for 58 Euro.

Retrospektive” will open on Friday, December 12, 2014, at 7pm.

Opening speakers are Celina Lunsford, Artistic Director at Fotografie Forum Frankfurt;

Chairman of the Board, Förderkreis Fotografie Forum Frankfurt; Ingo Taubhorn

/Deichtorhallen Hamburg and Brigitte Woischnik

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discovered his passion for art early on and

painting as a teenager at the end of the 1940s. His family did not support him in his


eiter was self-taught,

knowledge and understanding of

In this way, he could be certain that his own thought and artistic efforts were

inger, curator at the Whitney Museum in New York,

the artist Richard Poussette-

was fond of and which he quickly


eye, his playful sense of humour, and his

ged as an extraordinary fashion photographer.

photo spreads of Saul Leiter’s first black-and-white

trangers” (1953)

en at the Museum of Modern Art. From 1958 to 1967, Leiter worked for

“Harper’s Bazaar”. All in all he was to spend some 20 years photographing for both these classic

“Show”, “Elle”, “British Vogue”,

House of Photography at Deichtorhallen Hamburg and

oeuvre was curated by

in close cooperation with the artist before he died and with

first exhibited in Hamburg in

Retrospektive”, published by Kehrer

designed by Detlev Pusch, includes texts

Carrie Springer, Ingo

. It is available in hardcover with 296 pages and 155

” will open on Friday, December 12, 2014, at 7pm.

Opening speakers are Celina Lunsford, Artistic Director at Fotografie Forum Frankfurt; Michael

Ingo Taubhorn, Chief-

Brigitte Woischnik, Curator.,


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SAUL LEITER

Special Events

Saturday, December 13, 11 am

Guided tour with the curators Ingo Taubhorn

“Saul Leiter. Retrospektive”

The tour will be held in German

Friday, January 23, 2015, 6 pm

Lecture “Hommage an Saul Leiter

Margit Erb, Director Saul Leiter Foundation

introduce the artist and person Saul Leiter

The lecture will be held in German

Wednesday, February 11, 2015, 8 pm

Film screening “In No Great Hurry 13

A film by Tomas Leach (Producer and Director), 2012, GB/USA, 75 min

The film will be showing in English.


Film screening “In No Great Hurry 13

A film by Tomas Leach (Producer and Director), 2012, GB/USA, 75 min


Venue

Fotografie Forum Frankfurt

Braubachstraße 30–32, 60311 Frankfurt am Main

Phone +49 (0) 69 29 17 26, Fax +49 (0) 69 28 63 9

E-mail: [email protected]

www.fffrankfurt.org

Opening hours during the exhibition

Tuesday–Sunday: 11 am–6 pm, Wed

Holiday opening hours:

December 24, 25 and 26, 2014 closed

December 31, 2014 closed

January 1, 2015 closed

Admission: 6 € (reduced: 3 €)

For more information about the exhibition and press images, please contact Andrea Horvay by

phone +49 (0) 69 29 17 26 or by email at [email protected].



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11 am

Ingo Taubhorn and Brigitte Woischnik through the exhibition

German.

pm

Saul Leiter”

Saul Leiter Foundation, and Brigitte Woischnik, co-curator of the exhibition

the artist and person Saul Leiter.

German and in English.


In No Great Hurry 13 - Lessons In Life With Saul Leiter”

(Producer and Director), 2012, GB/USA, 75 min

English.


In No Great Hurry 13 - Lessons In Life With Saul Leiter”

(Producer and Director), 2012, GB/USA, 75 min


32, 60311 Frankfurt am Main

Fax +49 (0) 69 28 63 9

during the exhibition:

6 pm, Wednesday: 11 am–8 pm, Monday closed.

December 24, 25 and 26, 2014 closed

about the exhibition and press images, please contact Andrea Horvay by

+49 (0) 69 29 17 26 or by email at [email protected].

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hrough the exhibition

curator of the exhibition,


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SAUL LEITER

CV

SAUL LEITER

1923 Born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1930s Attends Talmudical Academy in New York City

1935 (circa) Is given a Detrola camera by mother and begins photographing sporadically.

1940s (early) Leiter attends Telshe Yeshiva Rabbinical College in Cleveland

1946 Leaves theological college in Cleveland and moves to New York. Meets Abstract

Expressionist painter Richard Pous

1947 Attends Henri Cartier

befriends W. Eugene Smith who gives him

1948(circa) Begins working with color slide film. Works primarily with three cameras, Argosy C3, Auto

Graflex Junior and an early Rolleiflex.

1951 LIFE publishes his black

issue. More work is featured in the

Man”).

1952 Moves to East Tenth Street; founding of the co

1950s (late) Gives slide talk about his color work at “The Club,” an art space in the East Village.

1957 Steichen includes twenty of Leiter’s color photographs in his slide talk, “

Photography in Color” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Henry Wolf, art director

at Esquire, publishes some of Leiter’s fashion photographs.

1958 Begins to photograph for

1959 Travels to Europe on assignment for

making of “Solomon and Sheba

1960-80s Continues to take fashion photographs and other commercial work. His fashion work is

published in Harper’s Bazaar

photographs are also included in

magazines.

1976 William Eggleston exhibition of color photography at the Museum of Modern Art. The

MoMA show is regarded as a watershed

Eggleston's was the first one

MoMA or any other major museum.

1981 Closes commercial studio at 156 5th Avenue.

1992 works included in the book The New Yor

1994(circa) Receives funding from Ilford Paper Company to begin printing color work as

Cibachromes with Laumont Labs in New York.

2002 Gives talk at Jewish Museum, New York

2006 First monograph “Early Color” is published by

Milwaukee Art Museum. Attends exhibition and gives talk.

Gives talk and slide presentation at the Jewish Museum, Paris

2010 Travels to Berlin to give talk and slide show at C/O Berlin.

2013 died shortly before

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014 Saul Leiter, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt

2013 Saul Leiter, Kunsthaus Wien

2012 Saul Leiter, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

Saul Leiter, Forma Foundation for Photography, Milan

2011 Saul Leiter, Musée de l'Elysée,

Saul Leiter, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam



Born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Attends Talmudical Academy in New York City

Is given a Detrola camera by mother and begins photographing sporadically.

Leiter attends Telshe Yeshiva Rabbinical College in Cleveland

Leaves theological college in Cleveland and moves to New York. Meets Abstract

ressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart who influences his interest in photography.

nds Henri Cartier-Bresson’s exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art

befriends W. Eugene Smith who gives him Alexey Brodovitch’s book Ballet

Begins working with color slide film. Works primarily with three cameras, Argosy C3, Auto

lex Junior and an early Rolleiflex.

publishes his black-and-white series “The Wedding as a Funeral” September 3

issue. More work is featured in the LIFE November 26 issue (“Shoes of the Shoeshine

Moves to East Tenth Street; founding of the co-operative Tanager Gallery.

Gives slide talk about his color work at “The Club,” an art space in the East Village.

Steichen includes twenty of Leiter’s color photographs in his slide talk, “


, publishes some of Leiter’s fashion photographs.

Begins to photograph for Harper’s Bazaar when Henry Wolf becomes art director.

to Europe on assignment for Esquire to photograph Gina Lollobrigida during the

Solomon and Sheba” in Madrid.

Continues to take fashion photographs and other commercial work. His fashion work is

Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Show, British Vogue, Queen, and

photographs are also included in LIFE, US Camera, Photography Annual

William Eggleston exhibition of color photography at the Museum of Modern Art. The

MoMA show is regarded as a watershed moment in the history of color photography.

Eggleston's was the first one-person exhibition of color photographs in the history of

MoMA or any other major museum.

Closes commercial studio at 156 5th Avenue.

included in the book The New York School: Photographs 1936

Receives funding from Ilford Paper Company to begin printing color work as

Cibachromes with Laumont Labs in New York.

Gives talk at Jewish Museum, New York

First monograph “Early Color” is published by Steidl. First solo museum exhibition at the

Milwaukee Art Museum. Attends exhibition and gives talk.

Gives talk and slide presentation at the Jewish Museum, Paris

Travels to Berlin to give talk and slide show at C/O Berlin.

died shortly before his 90th birthday in New York.

Saul Leiter, Fotografie Forum Frankfurt

l Leiter, Kunsthaus Wien, Vienna

Saul Leiter, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg

Saul Leiter, Forma Foundation for Photography, Milan

Leiter, Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne

Saul Leiter, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam

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Is given a Detrola camera by mother and begins photographing sporadically.

Leaves theological college in Cleveland and moves to New York. Meets Abstract

Dart who influences his interest in photography.

Bresson’s exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art; meets and

Alexey Brodovitch’s book Ballet

Begins working with color slide film. Works primarily with three cameras, Argosy C3, Auto

white series “The Wedding as a Funeral” September 3

November 26 issue (“Shoes of the Shoeshine

operative Tanager Gallery.

Gives slide talk about his color work at “The Club,” an art space in the East Village.

Steichen includes twenty of Leiter’s color photographs in his slide talk, “Experimental


when Henry Wolf becomes art director.

to photograph Gina Lollobrigida during the

Continues to take fashion photographs and other commercial work. His fashion work is

, and Nova. His

Photography Annual, and Infinity

William Eggleston exhibition of color photography at the Museum of Modern Art. The

moment in the history of color photography.

person exhibition of color photographs in the history of

k School: Photographs 1936-1963

Receives funding from Ilford Paper Company to begin printing color work as

Steidl. First solo museum exhibition at the


SAUL LEITER

CV

2010 Saul Leiter, Gallery.ru, Moscow

Saul Leiter, Photographs & Paintings, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris

Saul Leiter, KMR Arts, Washington Depot, CT

2009 Saul Leiter Paintings, Knoedler Gallery, New York

Saul Leiter, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp

Saul Leiter, Nicole Stanner Gallery, Munich

Saul Leiter, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon

2008 Saul Leiter, Foundation Henri Cartier

Saul Leiter, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan

Saul Leiter, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta

Saul Leiter Women, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Saul Leiter, Faggionato Fine Arts, London

Saul Leiter, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris

2007 Saul Leiter: Early Color, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor

2006 In Living Color: Photographs by Saul Leiter , Milwaukee Art Museum

Saul Leiter: Color, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp

The Fashion Photographs of Saul Leiter, Festival of Fashion Photography, H

2005 Saul Leiter: Early Color. Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

2004 Saul Leiter: In Color. Staton Greenberg Gallery, Santa Barbara

1997 Saul Leiter: In Color. Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Saul Leiter: In Color. Martha Schneider Galle

1994 Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

1993 Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

1985 Gallery Lafayette, New York

1984 Gallery Lafayette, New York

1972 Midtown Y, New York

1950s Tanager Gallery, New York

1947 Butler Institute of American Art,

1945 The Outlines Gallery, Pittsburgh

1944 Ten Thirty Gallery, Cleveland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 In the Darkroom National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Recent Acquisitions Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris

2008 Life is Stranger Than Fiction: Masterpieces from the Collection Albertina, Foto Kunst

Stadtforum, Innsbruck

First Doubt. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

2007 Pieces of a City. Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

Mapping the City. Stedelijk

When Color Was New, Art Institute of Chicago

2006 Color Photography, Amon Carter Museum, Texas

The Streets of New York, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

2002 New York: Capital of Photography. The Jewish Museum, New York

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

The Whitney Museum of American Art, June 27

1998 Look at Me, Fashion and Photography in Britain 1960 to the Present British Council European

Touring Exhibition.

1996 Delirium. Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York



Saul Leiter, Gallery.ru, Moscow

Saul Leiter, Photographs & Paintings, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris

Saul Leiter, KMR Arts, Washington Depot, CT

Paintings, Knoedler Gallery, New York

Saul Leiter, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp

Saul Leiter, Nicole Stanner Gallery, Munich

Saul Leiter, Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saone, France

Saul Leiter, Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris

Saul Leiter, Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan

Saul Leiter, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta

Saul Leiter Women, Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

r, Faggionato Fine Arts, London

Saul Leiter, Galerie Camera Obscura, Paris

Color, University of Maine Museum of Art, Bangor

In Living Color: Photographs by Saul Leiter , Milwaukee Art Museum

Saul Leiter: Color, Fifty One Fine Art Photography, Antwerp

The Fashion Photographs of Saul Leiter, Festival of Fashion Photography, H

Saul Leiter: Early Color. Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Saul Leiter: In Color. Staton Greenberg Gallery, Santa Barbara

Saul Leiter: In Color. Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Saul Leiter: In Color. Martha Schneider Gallery, Chicago

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Gallery Lafayette, New York

Gallery Lafayette, New York

Midtown Y, New York

Tanager Gallery, New York

Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

The Outlines Gallery, Pittsburgh

Ten Thirty Gallery, Cleveland

In the Darkroom National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Recent Acquisitions Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris

Stranger Than Fiction: Masterpieces from the Collection Albertina, Foto Kunst

Stadtforum, Innsbruck

First Doubt. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Pieces of a City. Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York

Mapping the City. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

When Color Was New, Art Institute of Chicago

Color Photography, Amon Carter Museum, Texas

The Streets of New York, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

New York: Capital of Photography. The Jewish Museum, New York

rk 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

The Whitney Museum of American Art, June 27-September 22.

ok at Me, Fashion and Photography in Britain 1960 to the Present British Council European

Delirium. Ricco/Maresca Gallery, New York

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The Fashion Photographs of Saul Leiter, Festival of Fashion Photography, Hyères, France

Stranger Than Fiction: Masterpieces from the Collection Albertina, Foto Kunst

rk Scene: Ted Croner, Sid Grossman, Saul Leiter and Leon Levinstein. Howard

Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art 1940-2001.

ok at Me, Fashion and Photography in Britain 1960 to the Present British Council European


SAUL LEITER

CV

1995 By Night. Cartier Foundation, Paris

1994 The New York School. Dean Jensen Gallery,

1991 Appearances: Fashion Photography Since 1945

1980 Fashion Photographers. Hastin

1963 Visual Arts Gallery, New York (Group show with Bruce Davidson, Robert Frank, Ernst Haas, Ar

Kane, Gordon Parks and others).

1958 Photographs from the Museum Collection. Museum of Modern Art, New York

1954 Emerging Talent. Curated by Clement Greenberg. Samuel Koontz Gallery, New Yo

1953 Contemporary Photography. Tokyo Museum, Tokyo

Always the Young Stranger. Museum of Modern Art, New York

1947 Abstract and Surrealist Art. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Alleti, Vince. “Shadows and Fog,” The Village Voice. February 9, 1993, p.79.

Best, Isabel. “Saul Man,” British Journal of Photography. August 2006, pp.13

Coleman, A.D. “Letter From: New York, No.41,” PhotoMetro. April, 1993, p.28.

Coleman, A.D. “Focusing on a Lesser

8, 1993.

Cowley, Rob. “Saul Leiter’s World,” Infinity. September 1961, pp.13

Gottlieb, Jane. “In Living Color, The unassuming Saul Leiter finally and reluctantly, steps into the limelight,”

Photo District News, January 2007, pp.37

Harrison, Martin. Appearances: Fashion Photography Since 1945. London: Rizzoli, 1991.

Harrison, Martin. “Saul Leiter Rediscovered,” The Correspondent Magazine. November 12, 1989, pp.14

Hostetler, Lisa. “In Living Color: Photographs by Saul Leiter,” 2006, Milwauk

Gallery Guide.

Koetzle, Michael. “Saul Leiter: Color has its own Qualities,” Leica World. January, 2000.

Kozloff, Max. “Saul Leiter’s Elegance,” Matador. Volume J. Spring 2007.

Livingston, Jane. The New York School: Photographs 19

Loke, Margarett. “Saul Leiter, Howard Greenberg Gallery,” Artnews. September, 1993, p.174.

Maine, Stephen. “Color Pioneer,” Art in America. April, 2006, pp.78

Meyers, William. “When the World Stopped

Roberts, Pamela. “A Century of Colour Photography: From the Autochrome to the Digital Age,” Andre Deutsch,

London, 2007.

Smith, Roberta. “Saul Leiter: Early Color,” The New York Times. December 30,

Tallmer, Jerry. “Still Time to Develop,” The New York Post. January 29, 1993

Woodward, Richard B. “Ten Undervalued Masters of Photography,” Art&Auction.

MONOGRAPHS

Leiter, Saul. Sketchbook #1, HGG/Steidl, Göttingen, Ge

Leiter, Saul. Saul Leiter, Painted Photographs, HGG/Steidl, Göttingen, Germany, 2012

Harrison, Martin. Saul Leiter, Early Black & White, HGG/Steidl, Göttingen, Germany, 2011 (3rd Edition)

2008 (2nd Edition); 2006 (1st Edition)

Kozloff, Max. Saul Leiter, Photofile, London, Thames & Hudson, 2008

Kozloff, Max and Robert Delpire. Saul Leiter, Photo Poche, Paris, 2007

Harrison, Martin. Saul Leiter, Early Black and White, Steidl, Göttingen, Germany, 2009

Sire, Agnès. Saul Leiter, Steidl, Göttingen, G

Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Saul Leiter, Dancing in the Street, Chalon



By Night. Cartier Foundation, Paris

The New York School. Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee

Appearances: Fashion Photography Since 1945, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Fashion Photographers. Hastings/Rinhart Galleries, New York

Visual Arts Gallery, New York (Group show with Bruce Davidson, Robert Frank, Ernst Haas, Ar

Kane, Gordon Parks and others).

Photographs from the Museum Collection. Museum of Modern Art, New York

Emerging Talent. Curated by Clement Greenberg. Samuel Koontz Gallery, New Yo

graphy. Tokyo Museum, Tokyo

Young Stranger. Museum of Modern Art, New York

Abstract and Surrealist Art. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago

Alleti, Vince. “Shadows and Fog,” The Village Voice. February 9, 1993, p.79.

Best, Isabel. “Saul Man,” British Journal of Photography. August 2006, pp.13-15.

Coleman, A.D. “Letter From: New York, No.41,” PhotoMetro. April, 1993, p.28.

Coleman, A.D. “Focusing on a Lesser-Known Cohort of Avedon and Arbus,” The New York Observer. Feb

Cowley, Rob. “Saul Leiter’s World,” Infinity. September 1961, pp.13-15.


Photo District News, January 2007, pp.37-39.

artin. Appearances: Fashion Photography Since 1945. London: Rizzoli, 1991.

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SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover

Albertina Museum, Vienna

American Academy of Arts & Letters,

Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth

Art Institute of Chicago

Art Collection of Agnès B. (Private)

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Sir Elton John Collection (Private)

Fondation Nationale d'Art Contemporain,

Hermes Collection of Art (Private)

Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris

Milwaukee Museum of Art

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Museum of Modern Art, New York

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (Hallmark Photographic Collection)

RISD Museum, Providence, R.I.

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, C.A.

Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas

St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, M.O.

Staatliche Museen Zu Berlin

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University

Whitney Museum of American Arts, New York

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven

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SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover

American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Fondation Nationale d'Art Contemporain, Paris

Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago

Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (Hallmark Photographic Collection)

Santa Barbara, C.A.

rsity of Kansas

St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, M.O.

Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University

Whitney Museum of American Arts, New York

ew Haven


(0) 69 29 17 26 or by email at [email protected].

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about the exhibition and press images, please contact Andrea Horvay by phone +49


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CURATORS


December 13, 2014 – March 1, 2015

Opening: Friday, December 12, 2014, 7 pm

Press preview: December 12, 2014, 11 pm

Ingo Taubhorn (* 1957 in Dortmund) studied visual communication with a focus on film and

photography from 1980 to 1985 in Dortmund. As an artist he has exhibited and published series

at home and abroad (i.a. “Mensch Mann”, “VaterMutterIch”, “Die Kleider meiner Mutter”)

Beginning in 1988 he worked as a freelance curator for Museum Folkwang, Essen; Pat Hearn

Gallery, New York and Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin. Between 2003 and 2006 he

was Head of Cultural Education at the House of Photography,

In 2006, he became the Chief Curator at the House of Photography. Since 2010 he is the

President of the German Photographic Academy and teaches photography and visual media at the

Hochschule der Künste Bremen, University of Applied Sciences FH, Bielefeld and the Hochschule

für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Hamburg. His most recent publication is “Ute Mahler und Werner

Mahler, Werkschau, Heidelberg 2014“.Together with Brigitte Woischnik he has curated exhib

about Lillian Bassman/Paul Himmel, Saul Leiter, Ute Mahler and Werner Mahler.

Brigitte Woischnik studied fashion at the Meisterschule für Mode in Hamburg.

journalism began as fashion editor for numerous magazines, and in the late 1

photography editor at “Seventeen” magazine in New York. In 1971 she became Head of the

Fashion Department at “Freundin” magazine. She opened the photographer agency FotoFactory in

Munich and was one of the founders of the Fotogalerie f5,6 in Munich

curator for the Lillian Bassman / Paul Himmel exhibition as well as for the Saul Leiter

Retrospective, and the Ute and Werner Mahler exhibition at the House of Photography,

Deichtorhallen, Hamburg. She was co

managing editor for the catalogue of Guy Bourdin accompanying the exhibition at House of

Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.

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March 1, 2015

Opening: Friday, December 12, 2014, 7 pm

Press preview: December 12, 2014, 11 pm

(* 1957 in Dortmund) studied visual communication with a focus on film and


at home and abroad (i.a. “Mensch Mann”, “VaterMutterIch”, “Die Kleider meiner Mutter”)



was Head of Cultural Education at the House of Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.



Bremen, University of Applied Sciences FH, Bielefeld and the Hochschule


Mahler, Werkschau, Heidelberg 2014“.Together with Brigitte Woischnik he has curated exhib


studied fashion at the Meisterschule für Mode in Hamburg.

journalism began as fashion editor for numerous magazines, and in the late 1



Munich and was one of the founders of the Fotogalerie f5,6 in Munich. Brigitte Woischnik was co



Deichtorhallen, Hamburg. She was co-editor for the mentioned exhibition catalogues and was


Photography, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg.

about the exhibition and press images, please contact Andrea


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(* 1957 in Dortmund) studied visual communication with a focus on film and


at home and abroad (i.a. “Mensch Mann”, “VaterMutterIch”, “Die Kleider meiner Mutter”).



en, Hamburg.



Bremen, University of Applied Sciences FH, Bielefeld and the Hochschule


Mahler, Werkschau, Heidelberg 2014“.Together with Brigitte Woischnik he has curated exhibitions


studied fashion at the Meisterschule für Mode in Hamburg. Her career in

journalism began as fashion editor for numerous magazines, and in the late 1960s as



. Brigitte Woischnik was co-



ioned exhibition catalogues and was




PRESS IMAGES

SAUL LEITER

SAUL LEITER. RETROSPECTIVE

December 13, 2014– March 01,

Press preview: Friday, December

Opening: Friday, December 12,

Saul Leiter Graffiti Heads, 1950 © Estate of Saul Leiter Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Saul Leiter Hat, 1956 © Estate of Saul Leiter Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York



TIVE

arch 01, 2015

December 12, 2014, 11 am

, 2014, 7 pm

Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Saul Leiter Sign Painter, 1954 © Estate of Saul Leiter Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Gallery, New York

Saul Leiter Postmen, 1952 © Estate of Saul Leiter Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

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Saul Leiter Untitled, 1950er (Self portrait) © Estate of Saul Leiter Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Saul Leiter Taxi, ca. 1957 © Estate of Saul Leiter Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Saul Leiter Carol Brown, Harper’s Bazaar, ca. 1958© Estate of Saul Leiter Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York




Saul Leiter Hat, ca. 1952 © Estate of Saul Leiter Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York


Saul Leiter Canopy, ca. 1957 © Estate of Saul Leiter Courtesy Howard Greenberg

Carol Brown, Harper’s Bazaar, ca. 1958


Saul Leiter Red Umbrella, ca. 1958 © Estate of Saul Leiter Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

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Saul Leiter Harlem, 1960 © Estate of Saul Leiter Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Saul Leiter Restaurant, ca. 2005 © Estate of Saul Leiter Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

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Saul Leiter Snow, 1960 © Estate of Saul Leiter Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

Greenberg Gallery, New York Saul Leiter One of my favorites, ca. 1960 (Painting)© Estate of Saul Leiter Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York

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One of my favorites, ca. 1960 (Painting)


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