Saul Head

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Saul Head

Saul Leiter (born December 3, 1923 in Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania , † November 26, 2013 in New York City , New York ) was an American photographer and painter . His early work in the 1940s and 1950s was an important contribution to the New York School .

Life

Saul Leiter's father was a well-known Talmudic scholar, and Saul too initially studied with the aim of becoming a rabbi . However, at the age of 23 he dropped out of religious school and moved to New York City to become an artist. Leiter had developed an interest in painting early on; he met the painter Richard Pousette-Dart , a representative of abstract expressionism . Pousette-Dart and W. Eugene Smith introduced him to photography; he experimented with a 35mm Leica camera . With colleagues like Robert Frank and Diane Arbus , he co-designed the photography of the 1940s and 1950s, which the art historian Jane Livingston later referred to as the New York School of Photographers - which had no direct connection with the New York School artist group .

Head lived with the painter Soames Bantry, they had separate studios in the same apartment block. Economically, both of them were at times very poor and could not pay their rent. It was not until the late 1980s that the British art historian Martin Harrison tracked down the conductor in his New York apartment again and saw his new discovery. Harrison, too, only managed to bring out a small volume of Leiters photographs in 2005, which then achieved six editions. A documentary about Leiter by Tomas Leach was shown in New York in November 2013 shortly before the death of Leiters.

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Leiter's early black and white photographs show an extraordinary affinity for this medium. He has been taking color photographs since 1946 . An invitation from Edward Steichen to the exhibition The Family of Man (1951) was ignored by Saul Leiter. Steichen then included Leiters b / w photos in the exhibition Always the Young Stranger at the Museum of Modern Art in 1953 . In the late 1950s, art director Henry Wolf Leiters published color fashion photographs in Esquire and later in Harper's Bazaar . Head worked as a fashion photographer for the next twenty years, appearing on Show , Elle , UK Vogue , Queen and Nova .

Leiter's contribution to photography is significant. His abstract forms and innovative compositions are of a painterly quality that stands out from the work of the other representatives of the New York School . His ambitions as a painter are evident in his painted nudes, on which he applied layers of gouache and watercolor . Martin Harrison wrote: “Saul Leiter's vision is based on a quick perception of spontaneous events. Confronted with a dense data network, fleeting moments in time and space, he uses a variety of strategies - oblique sections, complex, overlapping levels and ambiguous reflections - to develop an urban imagery that is alternately full of affection, modern and haunting. "

A retrospective of Leiter's work took place in Hamburg in 2012 in the Deichtorhallen .

Exhibitions

Individual exhibitions

  • 2019: Saul Leiter. Retrospective , Kulturstiftung der Versicherungskammer Bayern , Munich , June 5 - September 15, 2019
  • 2015: Saul Leiter , Galerie f5,6, Munich
  • 2014/2015: Saul Head. Retrospective , Photography Forum Frankfurt am Main.
  • 2013: Saul Leiter , KunstHausWien
  • 2012: Saul Leiter, retrospective , Deichtorhallen Hamburg
  • 2011: Saul Leiter, Early Color , Musée de l'Elysée , Lausanne
  • 2009: Saul Leiter , Galerie f5,6, Munich
  • 2008: Saul Leiter , Foundation Henri Cartier-Bresson, Paris
    • Saul Leiter , Galleria Carla Sozzani, Milan
    • Saul Leiter , Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta
    • Saul Leiter , Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York
    • Saul Leiter , Faggionato Fine Arts, London
    • Saul Leiter , Camera Obscura Gallery, 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, Hyères, France
  • 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 Gallery, Chicago
  • 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
  • 1954: Emerging Talent. Curated by Clement Greenberg. Samuel Koontz Gallery, New York
  • 1950s: Tanager Gallery, New York
  • 1947: Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
  • 1945: The Outlines Gallery, Pittsburgh
  • 1944: Ten Thirty Gallery, Cleveland

Group exhibitions

  • 2018/19: Saul Leiter. David Lynch. Helmut Newton: Nudes. Museum of Photography, Berlin
  • 2007: Pieces of a City. Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
    • Mapping the City. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
    • 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, DC
  • 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 1940-2001. , The Whitney Museum of American Art
  • 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
  • 1995: By Night. Cartier Foundation, Paris
  • 1994: The New York School. Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee
  • 1991: Appearances: Fashion Photography Since 1945. Victoria and Albert Museum, London
  • 1980: Fashion Photographers. Hastings / Rinhart Galleries, New York
  • 1958: Photographs from the Museum Collection. Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 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

literature

  • Robert Delpire: Saul Head. Photo Poche, Paris 2007.
  • Martin Harrison: Saul Leiter, Early Color. Steidl , Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86521-139-2 .
  • Martin Harrison: Appearances: Fashion Photography Since 1945 . Rizzoli, London 1991.
  • Martin Harrison: Saul Leiter, Early Black and White. Steidl, Göttingen 2008.
  • Lisa Hostetler: In Living Color: Photographs by Saul Leiter. Exhibition cat. Milwaukee Art Museum, 2006.
  • Agnès Sire: Saul Head. Steidl, Göttingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-86521-587-1 .
  • Ingo Taubhorn, Brigitte Woischnik: Saul Leiter retrospective. Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-86828-258-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kurier: The legendary photographer Saul Leiter died
  2. ↑ Saul Head of Biographical Data in THE RED LIST
  3. ↑ Jane Livingston: The New York School: Photographs. 1936-1963. Steward Tabori & Chang, New York 1992, ISBN 978-1-55670-239-6 .
  4. ^ A b Liz Jobey: Saul Leiter, rediscovered , in: Financial Times , January 9, 2016, p. 17
  5. ↑ Heiko Klaas, Nicole Büsing: With the eyes of a painter. In: Weser Kurier , February 6, 2012, p. 18.
  6. ^ A b Hans-Michael Koetzle: Photographers AZ . Taschen Germany, 2015 ISBN 978-3-8365-1107-0
  7. ↑ The chronicler of umbrellas and drops. In: FAZ . February 16, 2012, p. R8.
  8. ↑ Deichtorhallen: Saul Head of Retrospective - February 3 - April 15, 2012 in the House of Photography
personal data
SURNAME Head, Saul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer and painter
DATE OF BIRTH December 3, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh
DATE OF DEATH November 26, 2013
Place of death New York City