FOMU EN

FOMU presents a retrospective of the work of Saul Leiter (US, 1923-2013), a pioneer in colour photography. Leiter used colour film as early as 1946, at a time when only black-and-white photography was accepted as a means of artistic expression. In doing so, he disrupts the assumption that colour photography was only used in the 1970s, with the New Color Photography of Stephen Shore and William Eggleston. Saul Leiter only received recognition for this exceptional pioneering role at a late age, but has since become a permanent fixture in the history of photography.

The exhibition is a collaboration between Haus der Photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Gallery FIFTY ONE Antwerp, Saul Leiter Foundation, Howard Greenberg Gallery and FOMU Antwerp.

Photo: Saul Leiter, Red Umbrella, c. 1958 © Saul Leiter, Courtesy: Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York