Saul Leiter @ Milwaukee Art Museum

In Living Color
Photographs by Saul Leiter
Opens Thursday, September 28, 2006
Opening Reception, 5:30 -7:30 p.m., Mezzanine Level
Slide Talk with the Artist, 6:15 p.m., Lubar Auditorium
The first solo museum exhibition of Leiter's work features seventy stunningly lyrical color photographs made between 1946 and 1960, along with a handful of paintings and black-and-white photographs. His use of color photography at a time when the medium was still in its infancy set him apart from other photographers, and the images themselves - founded on the subtle hues and muted tones of daily life - are groundbreaking. They evoke the rhythm of urban visual poetry and receall the Abstract Expressionism of Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, and Richard Pousette-Dart. The result: An exhbition that is a visceral blend of innovative street photography and pioneering color compositions.
This exhibition is organized by Lisa Hostetler, assistant curator of photographs at the Milwaukee Art Museum.