![]() “In My Room” will be on display at the Howard Greenberg Gallery (41 East 57th Street, Suite 1406) through June 30. The images- many of which are on display for the first time- will also be published in a book of the same name by the Steidl/Howard Greenberg Library. Saul Leiter (19232013) pioneered a painterly approach to colour photography in the 1940s and produced covers for fashion magazines such as Esquire and Harper’s Bazaar before largely withdrawing from public attention in the 1980s. Fortunately for us, the Howard Greenberg Gallery has placed these images on view through June 30. Leiter had intended to compile a book of the photos back in the 1970s, but the project never came to fruition while he was still alive. Some women gaze directly at the camera while others examine their makeup, but in any case, the photos establish the intimate level of trust between muse and photographer. But what may have been more risqué was the everyday manner of the women Leiter painted through his lens. Given the era’s more conservative attitudes toward female behavior, the images were certainly taboo for their time. The shoots took place in Leiter’s studio in the East Village. ![]() ![]() The iconic photographer died in 2013, but his legacy endures through In My Room, a series of black-and-white photos of nude women from the mid-1940s through the early 1960s, including ones of his longtime partner Soames Bantry. (Photos: Saul Leiter Foundation, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York) ![]()
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