Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective (photography book)

Saul Leiter and other influential photographers of the time such as Tod Papageorge, we’re an important influence on the look and feel of A Complete Unknown – the film about Bob Dylan’s rise to fame in the early 1960s.

Saul Leiter photographed and painted nearly every day for over sixty years, amassing an enormous archive, most of which remained unseen during his lifetime. Finding inspiration within a few blocks of his apartment in Lower Manhattan, he was a master at discovering beauty in the most ordinary places. Celebrated today for his evocative colour photographs of New York in the 1950s and 1960s, which were unknown in their day, Leiter also found success as a fashion photographer for Harper’s Bazaar. All the while he was shooting black-and-white street scenes on his daily walks, and nudes and intimate portraits back home, while continuing his painting explorations with abstract watercolours, whimsical sketchbooks and painted photographs.

Created in collaboration with the Saul Leiter Foundation, Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective is a definitive monograph that brings together these diverse yet interconnected bodies of work – including much that was previously unpublished – to reveal the complete artist for the first time.