Saul Leiter
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Using his Lumix, 2007
Self-portrait, 1948
Born in Pittsburgh, the son of a well-known Talmud scholar, Saul Leiter (1923-2013) originally studied to become a rabbi. At 23, he left theology school and moved to New York to become an artist. Edward Steichen included some of Leiter's early black-and-white photographs in the exhibition Always the Young Stranger at the Museum of Modern Art in 1953. His work from the 1940s and 1950s was an important contribution to what became known as the New York School of photography, and was prominently featured in Jane Livingston's 1992 book, The New York School. Leiter also worked for many years as a fashion photographer.
"Leiter’s sensibility . . . placed him outside the visceral confrontations with urban anxiety associated with photographers such as Robert Frank or William Klein. Instead, for him the camera provided an alternate way of seeing, of framing events and interpreting reality. He sought out moments of quiet humanity in the Manhattan maelstrom, forging a unique urban pastoral from the most unlikely of circumstances."
-- Martin Harrison, editor and author of Saul Leiter Early Color (2006)
Images by Saul Leiter ...
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ca. 1950
Untitled (Two Men in Hats on a Train at Night), 1950
Angelo, New York City, ca. 1952
Haircut, New York City, 1956
Walk with Soames, New York City, 1958
Mr., New York City, 1958