Saul Leiter - Which Book Should You Buy?

[@andrewskillful]

Your voice is a significant part of what makes watching this review a pleasure.

[@RobinsBookClub]

@@andrewskillful that's very kind, thank you.

[@simonbnyc]

I have the Centennial retrospective and I agree it's a wonderful book. The print quality is stunning and gives the images depth while enhancing the gorgeous color saturation. As a biographical work it's first rate.

[@RobinsBookClub]

I suppose that's one of the upsides of a larger more expensive book, the paper quality can be better. Thanks for watching :)

[@iamnicoalfonso]

I have all of these books listed in the video. Is it still worth getting Early Color, Early Black & White and some of the other less popular ones still out there?

[@RobinsBookClub]

@iamnicoalfonso good question- you'd have to explore what new/different photos they had and if the price was right. I don't have any knowledge about that im afraid.

[@anta40]

I'm biased to any of his color work. Already have "All About Saul Leiter", and thinking to get another book. Yes, he also shoot in B & W, but probably not his strongest work. On the other side, most of his color photos look veery painting-like (well, like Ernst Haas).

[@abhijit-sarkar]

Thanks for doing this video. My only feedback is it probably would’ve been better to have chapters for each book, with a chapter conclusion at the end. I bought two of Leiter’s books, “All About Saul” and the Fotophile book. The Centennial is a huge coffee table book; I like to take my books everywhere which is not possible with it.

[@trasparent]

The full-page photos in "All about Saul Leiter" are cropped (just compare them with those on the web) and two or three in black and white are of poor quality (very obvious). I also appreciated the quotes. Not a good decision to arrange a photo on two pages... for example the one between pages 192-193 is lost in the gutter. It is a complete volume but too compact, narrow, not very easy to handle. At this point the Photofile edition is better even if there are very few of them. "Unseen Saul Leiter" has terrible paper, in fact on that black you can see the marks of your fingers (if you sweat them even a little). And I don't like the photos having a black background either. The best book I think is "Early Color" but it hasn't been available for years. There the photos are small, on a white background, one per page, a very Zen book. And in fact it is the only book published when Saul Leiter was still alive.

[@RobinsBookClub]

thank you for your wonderful insight, much appreciated :) although i didnt mention finger marks on the black pages of Unseen you can i think clearly see it in places best wishes Robin