[Talk event] Taka Kawachi x Shuichi Ikeya
Commemorating the release of "Saul Leiter Photo Book WOMEN"

Saul Leiter (1923-2013) is a legendary photographer who made his shocking world debut with Steidl at the age of 83. In the 1970s, he planned to create a nude photo book, but the project never came to fruition. This project is a collection of intimate nude photographs recently discovered in Saul Leiter's vast archives, taken by Leiter of women he knew.

Starting in 1946, the year Leiter arrived in New York, he continued to photograph nude women for the next 20 years. This book is composed of black-and-white photographs that capture the private space lit by natural light in his studio in New York's leafy East Village, as well as color works in which he has painted over the black-and-white photographs.

Ikeya Shuichi, editor of the Japan-original "Saul Leiter Photo Book WOMEN," will be joined by Kawachi Taka, director of the overseas business department at Benrido, the company that produces Saul Leiter's portfolio, to talk at length about Leiter's photographs and the appeal of Leiter as a person, while looking at the nude photographs from the book as well as photographs (for the first time ever shown) that Kawachi took when she visited Leiter's studio last April.

What makes his photographs so special? What did Saul Leiter, known for his color photographs, want to express in black and white? A new image of Saul Leiter may emerge from this book that would not have been apparent if you had simply looked at the photobook.

[Conditions for participation]
Customers who purchase any of the following products at GINZA TSUTAYA BOOKS are eligible to participate.
・Event participation ticket: 1,500 yen/tax included
・"Saul Leiter Photo Book WOMEN": 2,592 yen / tax included

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【profile】
Taka Kawachi
Director of Benrido's overseas business department.
After graduating from high school, he studied abroad at an art college in San Francisco, and after graduation he moved to New York, where he has worked on curating contemporary art and photography, as well as editing many photo books. After living in the United States for many years, he returned to Japan in January 2011. He became the director of Amana's photo collection, and collected photographs exclusively by Japanese photographers. In 2016, he published "The Entrance to Art (America Edition)" (Ohta Publishing), which describes art and photography through his own experiences, and its sequel "Europe Edition". Since January 2017, he has been based in Kyoto Benrido's Tokyo office, and has been working in the overseas business department, which aims to popularize the classic photography technique of collotype, and has produced portfolios for Saul Leiter and Lartigue.

Shuichi Ikeya
Born in Yokohama. After graduating from the Faculty of Humanities at Musashi University, he worked in exhibition production before becoming an editor. He produces photography magazines and books. He has been a member of the editorial department of Asahi Camera since 2011. He is also the director of the photography select shop Zakura.
Her book editing work includes "WOMEN" (Sohl Leiter), "90 Nights" (Fujishiro Meisa), "What is a good photo? 108 words that photographers should engrave in their hearts" (Herbie Yamaguchi), "Happy?", "son of the sun", "HALF MOON" (all by Hanzawa Katsuo), and "DreamLinking" (Anju). She also writes about music for various media. Her works include "DJ Files: Listening to the Turntable Craftsmen" (co-authored), among others.