Two small shows are mounted in Japan, Saul Leiter: Lanesville, 1958at Leica Gallery Tokyo and Saul Leiter: Nudeat Leica Gallery Kyoto.

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This image titled Times Square Mosaic below plays on reality because at first glance, it appears that this is an ordinary photograph of a woman, but the more you look, the more you start to notice the layers of mosaic which point to its being a reflection. Often uses Leica M4 for commercial work in the 1970s; for street photography uses Leica CL, Minox 35 EL, and Canon A-1 and AE-1, among other models. The selection of Leiter's photos, the superb printing by legendary German publisher Steidl, the binding, even the scent of the paper. I was able to use reflections like he did to distort realities and play with patterns on the streets to create new shapes.Although Edward Steichen had exhibited some of Leiter's color photography at The Museum of Modern Art in 1953, it remained virtually unknown to the world thereafter. The evocative, painterly images on these pages vividly demonstrate that in the second half of the twentieth-century Saul Leiter's photographic language of fragmentation and contingency was extending the boundaries of the medium.

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I had not heard of Saul Leiter's work prior to seeing an interview with Todd Haynes discussing his version of 'Mildred Pierce'; apparently Mr. These capable cameras should be solid and well-built, have both the speed and focus to capture fast action and offer professional-level image quality. The opportunity to go out and take my own photographs has taught me a lot about Leiter’s techniques and experiences as a photographer while also allowing me to develop my own. I thought that I would need to have a background in photography and know how to capture abstract moments.but that swings too far the other way (an equivalent thread on Soul Leiter over there would be filled with "he was a mindless hack" or "colour photographs are a pathetic imitation of reality and are fit only for tourists" etc). An Introductory, How-To Guide for Beginners:Learn about the basics of street photography in this easy to digest guide.

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A painter as well, he captured the impression of a place—figures, snow, fog, concrete, and lamplight—daubed, like brushstrokes. I would argue that he was not only a pioneer in the sense that he was among the first photographers to use color film, but that this also propelled him onto the streets of New York in which he took the role as an explorer. None of Leiter’s contemporaries, with the partial exception of Helen Levitt, assembled a comparable body of work: subtle, often abstract compositions of lyrical, eloquent color. Other photographs, like '463' and 'T' are shot through windows, to incorporate text written on them. Leiter moved to New York in 1946 to become a painter, but through his friendship with Richard Pousette-Dart he quickly recognized the creative potential of photography.

This is something I believe Leiter believed and is why he used his camera as a way to create new realities with tools already out there.

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Begins relationship with model Soames Bantry, who moves into Leiter’s East Tenth Street apartment building. In 1953, Leiter's black-and-white photographs were included in an exhibition of Edward Steichen's entitled Always the Young Stranger at The Museum of Modern Art. The photograph Mondrian Worker evokes this picturesque, painting feel because he not only uses this flattening, layering technique which gives it a painting look, but he also titles it after Piet Mondrian, an abstract painter known for his work with shapes and color. After he relocated to New York City in 1946, his visionary imagination and tireless devotion to artistic practice pushed him to become one of the iconic photographers of the mid-twentieth century.Saul Leiter: Early Color provides the first opportunity to see a comprehensive presentation of images by one of photography's great originals. The three photos I have chosen to include portray his use of abstraction to distort reality while also illustrating the isolated, private lives of the people on the streets of New York.