Galerie Camera Obscura is proud to show a selection of fifty color photographs by Saul Leiter (in cooperation with Howard Greenberg Gallery).
Saul Leiter was born in 1923 in Pittsburgh (USA). Son of a renowned rabbi, he was intended to follow in his footsteps, but he decided, to the despair of his father, to become a painter, and, in 1946, established himself in New York where he continues to live.
His friendship with Eugene Smith and the discovery of the works of Henry Cartier-Bresson lead him to begin photography.
In 1948, he started to take experimental color photographs in the streets of New York. This work, continued through the fifties, is undoubtedly a great masterpiece of photography, but remained confidential. During the sixties, Leiter entered a successful carrer of fashion photography, which certainly occulted the early and most personal part of his work (and indeed Leiter did nothing to promote it).
The rediscovery of this early color work, with an exhibition at Howard Greenberg Gallery in 2005 and the publication of a monograph (Steidl) in 2006, was largely acclaimed and makes us reconsider the emergence of an artistic color photography in the US before the masters of the seventies (Eggleston, Shore, Meyerovitz ...)
The colour photographs of Leiter where radically innovative for an epoch when artistic photography was expected to be in black and white.
His compositions, using the fragmentation of the subject, often viewed through various obstacles, filters or reflections, blurs the anecdote, and, sometimes close to abstraction or including large areas of colors, have a painterly quality achieved by a great colorist.
Women of Power consists of 29 color photographs depicting Polish witches, healers, sorceresses, visionaries, spiritual leaders and shamanic techniques practitioners.
According to what Ewelina Jarosz wrote about Women of Power : "The title points to Katarzyna Majak's intenti...
C’est à une invitation à la sérénité et à un retour sur soi que nous propose Yves Marcellin dans cette exposition inédite, installation photographique consacrée aux cinq remémorations du Bouddha.
Empreint des écrits du vénérable moine bouddhiste Thich Nhat Hanh, et plus particulièrement sensi...
With "The Family of Dog", Michael Ruetz has created, over the last 50 years, a unique body of photographic work. Superficially, these images might appear to pay tribute to the established forms of animal photography. But a second, more focused view shows that the reverse is true. Ruetz' pictures are as far removed from those of the animal specialist...
Failed States is an exploration of coincidence and poetics amid the barriers and bureaucracy of governmental power.
In January 2010, while on a trip to research the history of snipers in Austin, Texas, Magid witnessed a mysterious shooting on the steps of the State Capitol. After attempting to speak with a state empl...
Une Ford Pick-up, une Pan/Shovel 66, une Custom 2004 (Jeffrey), une Triumph 69 (Vince), une El Camino 64, une Bel Air 65 (peinte par Vince), une Duo Glide 62, une Comet (qui appartenait à Steve Mc Queen), une Special Construction 2000 (toutes, OM), une Harley 1969, une Dyna 2003 (Wes),une Pan 59, une Pan 62, une Pan 65 (John Copeland), une Sportster 68 (Dr...
Le conte photographique l’Emouvantail, se veut être « l’Echo » d’une histoire d’amour entre un épouvantail etune jeune femme, la Dame de l’O qui pourrait être celle de chacun d’entre nous… Mais pas seulement…
Créée par le Musée de l’Elysée à Lausanne, l’exposition Hans Steiner Chronique de la vie moderne a été présentée à la Fotostiftung de Winterthour, à la Médiathèque Valais-Martigny et au Museo Villa dei Cedri de Bellinzona.
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