"A new edition of this collection of Saul Leiter's distinctive work featuring twelve new
photographs. Saul Leiter was one of those photographers who sought neither fame nor commercial
success despite his talent for imagemaking. Born in Pittsburgh he spent his entire adult life
in New York City's East Village in an intensely creative environment where ideas from Europe
and America came together and intermingled. There he encountered Rothko and the Abstract
Expressionists and discovered street photography and the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson. His
mastery of colour is displayed in unconventional cityscapes in which reflections transparency
complex framing and mirroring effects are married to a very personal printing style creating a
unique kind of urban view"--Publisher's description.
