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PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEAK](http://photographyinterviews.blogspot.com/2009/04/saul-leiter-quiet-iconoclast-saul.html) says:

No, they did not. My mother thought I could be a rabbi and still paint on the third floor. “Who would know?” she would say. My father thought photography was done by lowlifes. My family was very unhappy about my becoming a photographer—profoundly and deeply unhappy. That’s not what they wanted for me, but I don’t want to go into it.