5/28/2023 0 Comments Saul leiter color photography![]() ![]() ![]() Hebegan shooting in black and white with a 35mm Leica, but in 1948 he moved tocolor, and he started with other contemporary photographers such as RobertFrank and Diane Arbus, the”New York School of photography”. At 23,having left his studies to become a rabbi, Saul became interested in painting,especially the Impressionist, but soon moved his passion to photography. ![]() Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, December 3, 1923. In this generation stands Saul Leiter, whoimmortalized the streets of New York for more than half a century: from thefifties, in fact, until his death in November of 2013. “Sam Leiter had, an uncanny ability to pull complex situations out of everydaylife, images that echo the abstraction of painting and yet, simultaneously,clearly depict the world.”Īlthough introduced in the US since 1907, color photography has begun to takeshape as an artistic expression only in the fifties, with photographers such asErnst Haas, Helen Levitt, and others. ![]()
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