1948 - 1960 
 
Saul Leiter. 
 
Steidl: 2006. First edition. Hardcover in a jacket. Square octavo. Unpaginated. Near fine.  
 
The first big production book of photography of the artist who first showed the world the glories of street photography. 
 
"Leiter's engravings in Early Color re-present incidents which may be characterized by their calm introspection as much as by their tension, psychological or otherwise. He seems to achieve this by a mysterious process of beguilement. Rather than imposing himself on situations he seeps, unobtrusively, into life's unfolding dramas: still, today, to observe him at work in Downtown New York remains an education in how photographers can avoid drawing any attention to themselves."