Saul leiter photography

Saul Leiter. Party. c. 1950. Gelatin silver print. 13 1/4 × 9 3/4" (33.7 × 24.8 cm). Gift of the Estate of Saul Leiter. 329.2016. © 2024 Estate of Saul Leiter. Photography

Today his photography is acclaimed by film directors and museum curators. So why were Leiter’s poetic images of New York ignored by the art world for decades?

Unknown Woman Eating Unknown Food (Tribute To Saul Leiter), by atacart

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Saul Leiter was an original — a spirited, self-effacing artist who followed his own vision. Earlier this year, TIME sat down for a friendly conversation with the painter and photographer at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York.

Saul Leiter -- his marvellous oblique, strange and provisional photographs always manage to look as if they were taken with the greatest reluctance...

Saul Leiter (born 1923) is an American photographer and painter whose early work in the 1940s and 1950s was an important contribution to what came to be recognized as The New York School. Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. His father was a well known Talmud scholar and Saul studied to become a Rabbi. At age 23, however, he left theology school and moved to New York City to become an artist. He had developed an early interest in painting and was fortunate to meet the Abstract…

Lovely sets of photos by Saul Leiter was published in the Andrey Zeigarnik’s and Dasha Kuzmina’s blogs. But I want to share with you my favorite pictures. It’s amazing but true – …