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Paul leiter6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Saul Leiter's first street photos were indeed recognized and exhibited during his lifetime, and even when he was only 29, at the MoMA, with the Always the Young Strangers exhibition. Unlike this photographer, her works were not discovered until after her death. However, what might be termed the "Vivian Meier syndrome" does not apply here. This mistrust was a lifelong default setting, steering him away from easy recognition and small talk. But he also knew the meaning of words, and without excessive modesty, didn't accept a lack of nuance, including in his praise. This discreet man was of course embarrassed to see a statue erected during his lifetime. I don't know, I don't care."(laughs)ĭoubtless there's a modicum of false modesty in these words.īut certainly there's a genuine distrust of ready-made ideas and labels. If you know enough about photography, you'll realize that nothing is really that new." Eventually it will turn out that many people did color. ![]() He says: "I've been described as being a pioneer. Yet in the film devoted to him by Tomas Leach, he cheerfully debunks his status as a pioneer of colour, "close to the pictorial movement of abstract expressionism." His photos of New York (from as early as 1948) earned him a significant reputation in the latter years of his life, especially for his use of colour. ![]() ![]() The work of Saul Leiter was rediscovered, with his street photographs brought to light in the 1990s. ![]()
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