Saul Leiter Selected Works Collotype Portfolio

"Saul Leiter: Selected Works" Mini-Portfolio is a famous century-old store in Kyoto, Japan **Benrido Collotype Atelier** A limited edition art collection officially published in January 2020.

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This collection was specially produced for the retrospective exhibition "Forever Saul Leiter" held at the Bunkamura Art Museum in Tokyo from January to March 2020. It uses the traditional "Collotype" technology that can be mastered by very few existing printing factories to perfectly reproduce the iconic and picturesque colorful street photography works of American photography master Saul Leiter.

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The following are the detailed specifications, tracks and process characteristics of this collection for you:

📸 Core specifications

Printing process: Multi-color Collotype hand-printing (Colour Collotype)

Release Version: Open Edition (Open Edition)

Including photos: a total of 6 color Ke Luo version original factory printed photos

Material of photo paper: Takeo Paper Matt

Photo size: 25.4 × 20.3 cm (10 × 8 inches)

Outer box size: 20.6 × 25.8 × 0.8 cm, with exquisite protective cover and publishing cover

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🖼️ 6 classic works included

This collection includes six iconic photographs of Saul Leiter, who is best known and best reflects his reputation as a "New York color poet":

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Purple Umbrella: a purple umbrella refracted through the snow scene or the window glass.

Cap (1960): Leiter's representative geometric composition and color superposition.

Driver (1950s): The classic freeze of staring at the driver in the car through the blurred and foggy windows.

"Foot on El": a work that uses the structure of the elevated railway (El) to carry out bold frame composition.

Walk with Soames (1958): depicts the romantic scene of his partner and muse Soames Bantry walking in the snow.

"Untitled": an unnamed classic street color photography.

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🎨 Why choose Collotype printing?

The Coro version was invented in France in the mid-19th century and is one of the earliest photo copying technologies in human history.

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The fineness of no dots: Unlike modern digital printing, the Corolla version does not rely on any dots, but uses the natural fine wrinkles produced by baking gelatin at high temperature to adsorb ink. Therefore, it can restore the continuous tone and hierarchy of the photo extremely delicately.

The perfect match of master colors: Saul Leiter liked to buy expired color negatives in his lifetime and was obsessed with the rich tone with chemical defects, like an impressionist painting. The craftsmen of Kyoto Convenience Hall (Benrido) perfectly present the warm, thick and airy New York color under Leiter's lens through hand-made water-based pigments and multi-layer superimposed prints.

Extremely high collection and preservation value: Due to the use of high-quality pigments and inks instead of dyes, the works of the Koro version have strong light resistance and durability, and are usually used for the reproduction and preservation of Japanese national treasure-level cultural relics.

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🛒 Purchase and obtain pipelines

This set of micro-collections has become a collection item for photography collectors and Leiter book fans because of its high cost-effectiveness (compared with limited art originals that cost thousands of dollars). You can find spot or second-hand collections on the following platforms:

Official and art bookstores: You can go to the official website of Benrido Store, moom bookshop in Taiwan, Setanta Books or The Photographers' Gallery in the United Kingdom. Look at the inventory.

Auction and second-hand platforms: If officially sold out, eBay and Artsy often release new unopened or single-framed versions.