With In My Room, Leiter ushers viewers into his private world while retaining his strong sense of mystery.

Leiter preferred solitude in life, and resisted any type of explanation or analysis of his work. The prolific Leiter, who painted and took pictures fervently up to his death, worked in relative obscurity well into his eighties. Leiter, who was also a painter, incorporates abstract elements into these photographs and often shows the influence of his favorite artists, including Bonnard, Vuillard and Matisse. Now we are granted a first-time look at this body of work, which Leiter began on his arrival in New York in 1946 and chipped away at over the next two decades. But never realized the project in his lifetime. Nude or boudoir photography (I can’t think of a better way to describe it) never looked as good as it does here.

Many of these photographs feature his long-time friend, muse and lover Soames Bantry and seem to be tender, intimate moments. In the 1970s, Leiter planned to make a book of his nudes. All About Saul Leiter Towards the end of the book are his black and white nudes.

Showing deeply personal interior spaces, often illuminated by the lush natural light of the artist’s studio in New York City’s East Village, these black-and-white images reveal the unique collaboration between Leiter and his subjects. About In My Roomįed by thrilling recent discoveries from Saul Leiter’s vast archive, In My Room provides an in-depth study of the nude, through intimate photographs of the women Leiter knew. PayPal accepted, any questions get in touch. IN NO GREAT HURRY is a funny, intimate and moving film, following photographer Saul Leiter (1923 - 2013) as he deals with the triple burden of cleaning an apartment full of memories, becoming world famous in his 80s and fending off a pesky filmmaker.

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