Saul Leiter - Cap, 1960

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DESCRIPTION
COLOUR PRINT ON A COLLOTYPE, STAMPED BY THE ORIGINAL FOUNDATION 

Collotype is a photomechanical process without photo net, it allows to obtain high quality photo from photo negatives. The process uses dichromate-sensitised gelatine to create micro-pattern on the surface. This type of technique is still expensive and technologically demanding, so it has been replaced by offset printing, which is cheaper and faster. The use of collotype is just use for the luxury print.  

• Perfect condition
• Size: 18 ×12 cm
• Foundation's stamp on the retro 

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ARTIST

Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh. He was the son of a prominent rabbi. His interest in art began at the age of 23, when he left theological school and his hometown to move to New York and devote himself to painting. 

As soon as he arrived in the "Big Apple", he met the painter Richard Pousette-Dart, famous for his Abstract Expressionism paintings. Pousette-Dart had a passion for photography that infected the young Leiter. The friendship with the famous American photojournalist Eugene Smith and the exhibition on Henri Cartier-Bresson that took place at the Moma in 1947, further fueled Leiter's passion for photography even more.  

In spite of his brilliant career as a photographer, Leiter continued to paint, in fact he never gave up painting, he also achieved a discreet success. In fact, his paintings were exhibited in the most prestigious New York's galleries. His experience as a painter was very important for the development of his style as a photographer. 

Although, he started out shooting in Black and White, he soon moved on to colors. During the “Experimental Photography in Color” conference held at MoMA in 1957, Leiter was dubbed a "color photographer" and the quality of his work was immediately rewarded in the fashion world where he worked, collaborating with magazines such as Esquire Harper’s, Bazaar Show, Elle, British Vogue, Queen and Nova.

At the same time, Leiter continued to photograph the streets of New York, for his own plesure. The photographs tfrom this period were kept in his private archive until the 1990's. When the American photographer decided to show them to the public, Leiter was recognised as one of the greatest street photographers along with William Klein and Robert Frank, icons of the "School of New York", although the New York we see In Leiter's photographs is less rabid and degraded. Leiter prefers the harmony created by the metropolitan chaos, he loves to lay a layer on top of another, to find the combination of colors, as in a painting. 

In 2008, the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson's in Paris organised the first museum exhibition of Leiter's work in Europe, accompanied by a catalogue.

Leiter died on 26 November 2013 in New York City.