![]() ![]() Margit Erb, the director of the foundation (and my wife), enlisted a small team to organize the prints into archival boxes, and years of cataloging began, an effort that we continue to this day.Īmong the street photography, the portraits, and the fashion work, we were surprised to find such a vast number of printed nudes-several thousands, in fact. Mainly, though, there was the archeological treasure waiting to be mined by the Saul Leiter Foundation-thousands and thousands of pieces of Saul’s own work: negatives, slides, undeveloped rolls of film paintings, many looking ready to turn to dust at the slightest agitation painted photographs, often tucked into books on the shelf like the world’s most precious bookmarks and, of course, photographic prints of all sizes, in color and black and white. There were lithographs and prints by some of his favorite artists thousands of books of all kinds, many bearing a 49-cent sticker from the nearby Strand Book Store pieces of beautiful old furniture hidden from view for decades, frequently branded with absentminded cigarette burns funny, ancient-looking toys and tchotchkes antique kitchenware ready to be dusted off and sent back out for duty dozens of little straw brooms once used to sweep the parquet floors. ![]() ![]() When Saul Leiter passed away at age 89 in November 2013, he left behind two East Village apartments bursting with artifacts from his long, productive, art-filled life. ![]()
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