![]() Seven decades after he made his first photographs, Leiter’s work is finally receiving its due, with several exhibitions planned in the U.S. And his color photographs predate those of “pioneer” William Eggleston by a quarter of a century. Eugene Smith, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon). Congenitally independent, his work more closely aligns with the aesthetic of painters he reveres (Bonnard, Vuillard, Honami Koestu) than the work of the great photographers he knew and still admires (W. His early black and white photographs, made in the mid-1940s, coincide with the birth of the New York School of street photography, but his serene, often-abstract images felt more pastoral than urban - in quiet contrast to the frenetic and visceral work of his contemporaries, and of the city itself. Saul Leiter is an original - a spirited, self-effacing artist who followed his own vision. ![]() 26: In memory of Saul Leiter, who has passed away in New York at the age of 89, LightBox republishes a casual conversation with the photographer and painter, originally published earlier this year. ![]()
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