Saul Leiter :: Early Black and White

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Ted Forbes

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🗓️ 5 April 2015

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Saul Leiter was one of the greatest undiscovered photographers of the 20th century. Working in New York as a fashion photographer, Saul Leiter amassed an amazing collection of personal work that came to the attention of Howard Greenberg in the 2000's. Before Saul's death - the release of "Early Color" changed Saul's career finally bringing the attention and praise he long deserved. Last year Greenberg/Steidl released a 2 volume book set called "Early Black and White". Divided into 2 volumes (I. Interior and II. Exterior), the portfolio shows a much different side of Saul. The images are just as beautiful as the Early Color work, but they are made with a completely different approach. In some ways they could have been done by a completely different photographer, but there's a hallmark of the style that is obviously classic Saul Leiter. The impressive part is that Saul treated black and white vs color as 2 different mediums. Much like an artist who paints and sculpts, the respect for these 2 "mediums" speaks to Saul's passion and respect for photography as well as his extraordinary talent as an artist. Get the book here: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3865214134/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=3865214134&linkCode=as2&tag=thepublbroa-20&linkId=XQTLHOONB2PTZ7DX Subscribe for more videos! http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=theartofphotography Twitter: http://twitter.com/tedforbes Instagram: http://instagram.com/tedforbes Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aop.podcast Pinterest: http://pinterest.com/tedforbes Website: http://theartofphotography.tv Watch More Episodes: Who Influenced Saul Leiter?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9y_F7PSGss Saul Leiter - Early Color :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJdIJkt3Gz8 Fred Herzog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6qv9o-Syuo And get on our mailing list to stay up to date on photography news and the latest episodes: http://theartofphotography.tv/about/mailing-list/ Thanks for watching - if you like this video, remember to share it with your friends! Ted Forbes The Art of Photography 3100 Main St #135 Dallas, Texas 75226 My name is Ted Forbes and I make videos about photography. I’ve been making photographs most of my life and I have a tremendously deep passion for photography that I want to share with you on YouTube. The Art of Photography is my channel and I produce photography videos to provide a 360 degree look into the world of making images. We all want to get better so lets do this together! I make videos covering famous photographers, photography techniques, composition, the history of photography and much more. I also have a strong community of photographers who watch the show and we frequently do social media challenges for photographers to submit their own work. I feature the best and most interesting on the show when we do these so come check it out and get involved! So come check it out! If you’re a fan of DigitalRev, Fro Knows Photo (Jared Polin), Matt Grainger (That Nikon Guy) or Tony Northrup - you’ll love The Art of Photography. I make video’s giving you a deeper dive into photography techniques, composition and history to compliment the other channels you love to watch. New shows come out every Sunday, Tuesday and Friday.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, Ted Forbes.
0:01.2	Welcome back to the art of photography.
0:02.9	In this video, I want to explore some of the early black and white work of
0:05.8	Saul Lighter.
0:06.6	I've talked about Saul before on the show, and he's a photographer who's
0:09.4	been an enormous influence on me.
0:11.5	His work has an enormous impact I think on a lot of
0:13.7	photographers and he's probably best known for his early color work and the early
0:18.1	color work is completely different than what we're going to look at today.
0:20.9	I'm going to pull out a book that I got that was
0:23.8	published this year called Early Black and White. It's part of the whole series
0:27.3	that Early Color was from and you're going to see that the black and white work
0:30.5	is considerably different than what we are used to seeing with the
0:33.5	color work. The color work combines a wonderful sense of street
0:36.8	photography of New York City in the 1950s and 1960s with these wonderful deep
0:41.0	reds and oranges and occasionally blues and purples as well.
0:45.6	And there's also a layer of abstraction that comes with those where Saul would like shoot through
0:49.6	windows or he would catch reflections and he would add a layer of complexity into the work that he was doing.
0:54.8	The black and white work is kind of the opposite of all that and I think this speaks to the
0:59.1	talent level that Saul Lider was working on and speaks to his genius as an artist.
1:04.2	And so probably the best thing to do is come over and look at some images.
1:06.7	So without further ado, this is the black and white work of saw Lider.
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