Saul Leiter Street Photographe r By: Alyssa Rivera
Family Life Leiter’s father was a well known Talmud scholar His father expected Saul to take the same route as himself Leiter’s father thought photography was done by lowlifes His family was deeply unhappy about Saul becoming a photographer
Biography Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh on Dec. 3, Leiter passed November 26, 2013 at age 89 Mid-1940s after studying for the rabbinate at a Cleveland seminary, Saul left without graduating and moved to New York to be a painter While in Manhattan, he worked with Richard Pousette-Dart, an abstract expressionist painter who encouraged Leiter to explore photography
Photography Saul was a very tranquil photographer He would find something he liked and take a photo of it “ I go out to take a walk, I see something, I take a picture. I take photographs. I have avoided profound explanations of what I do. ” Saul Leiter Early Black and White
Style of Photography: Street Saul Leiter Phone Call x 28 cm
Saul Leiter 5 th Avenue Bus x 40 cm “ I’m mystified that anyone thinks liking color is a bad thing. ”
Saul Leiter Woman in Black Seen Through Trees x 50 cm
Saul Leiter Reflection x 35 cm
Saul Leiter Scarf x 28 cm
Saul Leiter Boy x 20 cm “ When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion. ”
Saul Leiter Yellow Scarf x 35 cm
Saul Leiter L & L Dairy x 40 cm
Saul Leiter From the El x 40 cm
Saul Leiter Harper’s Bazaar x 40 cm
Saul Leiter Toy Shop x 28 cm “ I am not immersed in self-admiration. When I am listening to Vivaldi or Japanese music or making spaghetti at three in the morning and realize that I don’t have the proper sauce for it, fame is of no use. ”
Artwork Saul Leiter Irish Landscapes 1960 Saul Leiter Souvenir 1965
Emulation
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