Tag: Saul Leiter

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 1923, Leiter was expected to follow in the religious footsteps of his father, a rabbi. But he had other ideas and gravitated toward the arts. In 1946, he moved to New York to start a life as an artist, where he lived until his death in 2013.

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.