With 'In My Room', Saul LEITER ushers viewers into his private world while retaining his strong sense of mystery." (© Steidl Verlag, 2018) About the U.S. He preferred solitude in life, and resisted any type of explanation or analysis of his work. Saul Leiter had a refined, rarified way of seeing that appears, at times, deceptively simple. The prolific Saul LEITER, who painted and took pictures fervently up to his death, worked in relative obscurity well into his eighties. The photographer, 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 Saul LEITER began on his arrival in New York in 1946 and chipped away at over the next two decades. In the 1970s, he planned to make a book of his nudes, but never realized the project in his lifetime. 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. "Fed by thrilling recent discoveries from the vast archive of US-American photographer Saul LEITER, 'In My Room' provides an in-depth study of the nude, through intimate photographs of the women he knew.
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