![]() The Saul Leiter Foundation is currently preparing to celebrate the centennial of Leiter’s birth in 2023. 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. 2010 Travels to Berlin to give talk and slide show at C/O Berlin, in conjunction with Photography Days festival. Born in Pittsburgh in 1923, the son of a renowned orthodox Rabbi, Leiter developed a keen interest in art during his late teens, but. 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. Now widely recognized as one of the most important practitioners of the post-war period, Saul Leiter was an American artist and an early pioneer of color photography. 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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