SAUL LEITER. EARLY COLOR, 1948

Early Color provides the first opportunity to see a comprehensive presentation of images by one of photography's great originals. Le iter moved to New York in 1946 intending to be a painter, but through his friendship with the Abstract Expressionist Richard Pousett e-Dart, he quickly recognized the creative potential of photography. The lyricism and intensity of his vision come into fullest play in his eloquent handling of color unequaled by his contemporaries. Leiter's visual language of fragmentation, ambiguity, and contin gency is...[Read more]