VIEWFINDING #11
Street photography special: Saul Leiter / Framelines / Greg Girard
Saul Leiter – An Unfinished World
Proto-colourist Saul Leiter’s work is justifiably lauded by everybody these days. His sharply composed images with evocative, dream-like hues transport the viewer back to New York of the 1950s and 60s.
An Unfinished World at MK Gallery in Milton Keynes (about an hour from London by train) presents 171 of Leiter’s photographs alongside 40 of his paintings, for what will be the largest UK exhibition of his work to date.
Born in 1923, Leiter began taking photographs at the age of twelve and was soon shooting daily, something that he would continue to do throughout his life. Upon his passing in 2013, some 15,000 monochrome prints, over 40,000 colour transparencies, and a similar number of monochrome negatives were discovered, the vast majority being previously unseen. On top of this, there were 4,000 of his paintings.
The exhibition is curated by Anne Morin, co-produced by the Rencontres d’Arles and Di Chroma Photography, Madrid, with the collaboration of the Saul Leiter Foundation, New York.
Saul Leiter: An Unfinished World is at MK Gallery from 17th February to 2nd June. More details can be found here.
Images © Saul Leiter Foundation, courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery
Framelines issue 7
The seventh issue of Framelines, the London-based street and documentary photography quarterly magazine, has just been published. The issue features the work of seven photographers, including Garry Winogrand, Sage Sohler and Michelle Groskopf.
Shane Taylor, Editor-in-Chief of Framelines, says, ‘Our goal is to make a magazine for Winogrand and Sage practitioners, by practitioners – a useful and inspiring resource for people who love the same thing we do: street photography.’
Framelines is self-published and has a limited print run. It is currently only available directly from the publisher – you can find out more and order here.
1st image © Estate of Garry Winogrand, courtesy Twin Palms Publishers
2nd image © Sage Sohler, courtesy Nazraeli Press
Greg Girard – American Stopover
Greg Girard is a Canadian photographer whose first photographs were made in Vancouver where he grew up in the early 1970s. His seventh photobook, American Stopover is a visual record of his travels through the 1970s.
Girard describes this period in his life thus, ‘In the 1970s and early 1980s, trips to Asia always began in California. Sailing by freighter from San Francisco, or on multi-stopover air tickets to Tokyo or Bangkok, originating in SFO or LAX. I stayed in cheap hotels, or half-slept in all-night cinemas. Wandering around the streets day and night, I met people and photographed them. I would linger for days or weeks, travel by Greyhound bus to other cities, and then eventually board a plane or ship to cross the Pacific.’
He continues, ‘The US west coast has always been a magnet for young searchers, and it was that for me too, though in my case it was more of a vast departure lounge – a long drawn-out stopover, rather than a final destination. In a way these pictures mark the beginning of a trip that I never returned from.’
Greg Girard – American Stopover is available to pre-order from publisher Kominek Books here, and will ship in March. There is also a special edition that comes with a choice of four different signed and numbered archival pigment prints, details here.
Images © Greg Girard, courtesy Kominek Books