Yeah
After reading the obit I unfortch read Bremser's take. I think he has a really good eye but I almost never agree with his writing
Like many of his best shots, your first reaction is: Why did he take that? When he was shooting Kodachrome in the 1950s there was no way to make the perfect little book that “Early Color” is, so he was shooting for some future audience that would both have the technology to reproduce the slides, and appreciate how he saw.
Think this ascribes too much agency. Some people shoot and never intend to show
― 乒乓, Thursday, 28 November 2013 19:18 (ten years ago) link
I ashamedly put in an order for Early Color when I heard. It's something I should have done long ago
― 乒乓, Thursday, 28 November 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link
really keen to see all of those books. i was dithering over interlibrary loaning his B&W volume a couple of days ago, seeing afresh the pic i posted above & remembering its existence. i am totally sad that i will never get to go catsit for him in his beautiful apartment now but otherwise i think it's a kind of nice opportunity just to think of him, that he got the flush of recognition of the past few years & that those images are part of our vocabulary, now - hewn in extinct tones, rich with this otherworldly step, some stylist from nowhere. he was one of the best i think.
― love mike love (ko komo) (schlump), Thursday, 28 November 2013 19:36 (ten years ago) link
Never seen any of his B&W work but this came up on tumblr
http://i.imgur.com/aSiD8Qm.jpg
― 乒乓, Friday, 29 November 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
oh his B&W work always looked unreal - this strain ^^ mostly but also a lot of kinda uncharacteristic, personal work, portraiture &c, not a million miles away from early/less goth emmet gowin
http://lin-morris.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Saul-Leiter-window.jpeg
― love mike love (ko komo) (schlump), Friday, 29 November 2013 19:02 (ten years ago) link
Teju Cole
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/11/postscript-saul-leiter-1923-2013.html
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 15:36 (ten years ago) link
Also ordered Early Color when i heard. Has been showing as unavailable on Amazon UK but my copy dispatched today.
― michaellambert, Wednesday, 4 December 2013 17:30 (ten years ago) link
Book arrived. So good. The foreword's in French, but I can live with that.
― michaellambert, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 22:43 (ten years ago) link