“Saul Leiter, the New York Nabi” on L’Oeil de la Photographie

“Saul Leiter, the New York Nabi” on L’Oeil de la Photographie

To accompany Saul Leiter’s first exhibition in Japan, at the Bunkamura Museum of Art in Tokyo, the French digital magazine L’Oeil de la Photographie presents “Saul Leiter, the New York Nabi” by Pauline Vermare, the curator of the Japanese show.

Exploring the significant influence of Japanese art on Leiter’s work, Vermare says,

“His atelier actually looked very much like a traditional Japanese house — the dark wood, the spectacularly tall glass window letting in the northern light, the very Japanese garden outside. As Jun’ichirô Tanizaki wrote in In Praise of Shadows, ‘We love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colors and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.’”

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