He printed some of his black-and-white street photos, but kept most of his color slides tucked away in boxes. All the while, Leiter continued to stroll the streets wherever he was (mostly New York and Paris), making photographs for his own pleasure. He became better-known as a successful fashion photographer in the 1950s and 60s. MoMA’s 1957 conference “Experimental Photography in Color” featured 20 color photographs by Leiter.Īfter that, however, Leiter’s personal color photography was, for the most part, not shared with the public. He had no formal training in photography, but the genius of his early work was quickly acknowledged by Edward Steichen, who included Leiter in two important MoMA shows in the 1950s. The Saul Leiter Foundation is currently preparing to celebrate the centennial of Leiter’s birth in 2023.Saul Leiter started shooting color and black-and-white street photography in New York in the 1940s. Some of these discoveries have been shown as projections in the 2020 Japanese traveling exhibition Forever Saul Leiter, and in Aperture magazine’s spring 2021 “New York” issue. In 2018, the foundation began cataloging the tens of thousands of color slides in Leiter’s archive, with images dating as far back as 1948. These lectures often accompany Leiter’s traveling exhibitions recent talks have been held at the Photographers’ Gallery in London FOMU in Antwerp, Belgium Bunkamura in Tokyo and the Itami City Museum of Art in Itami, Japan.
Lectures on Leiter’s life and work, and on archiving and general conservation techniques, are given by the foundation’s directors, in grade schools, high schools, colleges, universities, and other institutions.
The SLF is working toward completing a catalogue raisonné to be made available for study by students, curators, writers, and art professionals. A primary goal is cataloging the work that Leiter left behind, which comprises thousands of prints, slides, negatives, and paintings.
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