Saul Leiter’s Black-and-White World

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Saul Leiter’s Black-and-White World

Though he was famed for his color photography, Saul Leiter’s earliest work was in black-and-white, and just as personal and powerful as his later images.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/08/saul-leiters-black-and-white-photo-world/

Saul Leiter was famed for his richly hued color photographs. Yet when he first came to Howard Greenberg’s attention, it was his black-and-white street photos that stunned the New York gallery owner, who immediately gave him a one-man show.