Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter is widely regarded as one of the Masters of Colour Photography. Danie discuss Saul and his work in DPC's first series on Master Photographers.

Saul Leiter was an original — a spirited, self-effacing artist who followed his own vision. Earlier this year, TIME sat down for a friendly conversation with the painter and photographer at the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York.

Package by Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter Untitled (C-004607), n.d. Saul Leiter Foundation copyright stamp dated "2022" with signature in pencil by Margit Erb, director, on label and Saul Leiter Foundation edition stamp with print date and edition number in pencil on label affixed to print verso. Chromogenic Print. Printed 2022. . Image Size :...

Today his photography is acclaimed by film directors and museum curators. So why were Leiter’s poetic images of New York ignored by the art world for decades?

Saul Leiter -- his marvellous oblique, strange and provisional photographs always manage to look as if they were taken with the greatest reluctance...

Michael Almereyda, introduction

Paris, 1959 📷 © Saul Leiter (American, 1923 - 2013)

These previously unpublished selections of 35mm slides confirm and extend the stubborn singularity of Leiter’s color language.

Photographer Saul Leiter has died in New York at the age of 89. Leiter was born in Pittsburgh in 1923 and moved to New York to become a painter. He worked for a number of magazines and was known for his quiet street scenes, which were, unusually for the time, often shot in colour