Photography saul leiter6/20/2023 ![]() Several planes come together to obscure what would otherwise seem to be the main subject of the photograph. Largely shot using telephoto lenses, mirrors and windows tend to be the recurring motifs in these photographs bordering on abstraction. Find the latest shows, biography, and artworks for sale by Saul Leiter. There is no decisive moment, just a series of moments and a collection of undecided possibilities. Out of people who lived in different houses, 62 lived in this county. Unlike contemporaries like Winogrand and Klein, his street photos tease, but don’t tell. 63 of Fawn Creek township residents lived in the same house 5 years ago. But Saul chose colour to imagine a reverie. Colour was, at that time, looked at with horror, antithetical to a serious artistic practice, only adorning the editorial and commercial spaces of photographers such as Blumenfeld. ![]() ![]() It was a chance encounter with expired Kodachrome that led to the hue that is now recognised as his characteristic palette…intensely warm colours with oddly faded tones. ![]() ![]() It’s exciting to see the various visual leitmotifs that he keeps finding in his street work, and then analyse how often he deliberately uses them on commissioned shoots. Saul Leiter is unarguably one of my favourite photographers and one of the most important photographers of his generation, today we explore his images & don. ![]()
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