Tag: Saul Leiter

  • This photographer was once lost to obscurity, but he is now legendary – The Washington Post

    This photographer was once lost to obscurity, but he is now legendary – The Washington Post

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    Once lost to obscurity, this photographer is now a legend The brilliant photographs of Saul Leiter. via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/02/17/this-photographer-was-once-lost-to-obscurity-but-he-is-now-legendary/ Even after the plaudits started to rain down after the publication of his now essential book, “Early Color” in 2006, Saul Leiter was a reluctant legend. Born into an Orthodox Jewish family in Pittsburgh in…

  • Saul Leiter’s Black-and-White World

    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…

  • Saul Leiter in Black and White

    Saul Leiter in Black and White

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    Saul Leiter in Black and White via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/04/saul-leiter-in-black-and-white.html#slide_ss_0=1 An undervalued photographer for most of his life, Leiter quietly amassed a body of work that has only recently begun receiving the credit it deserves

  • Saul Leiter 1923-2013

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    Saul Leiter 1923-2013 Saul Leiter Saul Leiter, a color photographer’s color photographer, died a week ago today. I suspect he’ll be one of those photographers we learn more about as time passes, rather than less; he strikes me as a figure who will… via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2013/12/saul-leiter-1923-2013.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29 I suspect he’ll be one of those…

  • Photographer Saul Leiter has died

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    Photographer Saul Leiter has died [update] American photographer Saul Leiter died on Tuesday 26 November in New York, according to Roger Szmulewicz at Fifty One Fine Art Photography in Antwerp, Belgium. Leiter, who was 89, had been ill for the past three to four weeks, Szmulewicz tells BJP. ‘I spo via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2309658/photographer-saul-leiter-has-died…

  • A Casual Conversation with Saul Leiter

    A Casual Conversation with Saul Leiter

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    LightBox | Time Read the latest stories about LightBox on Time via Time: http://lightbox.time.com/2013/02/19/a-casual-conversation-with-saul-leiter/#1 Max Kozloff said to me one day, ‘You’re not really a photographer. You do photography, but you do it for your own purposes – your purposes are not the same as others’. I’m not quite sure what he meant, but I…

  • Saul Leiter: The Quiet Iconoclast

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    PHOTOGRAPHERS SPEAK 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…