New to me an hour ago
This is genius
https://www.saulleiterfoundation.org...j6xtvaxbcf6ve1
New to me an hour ago
This is genius
https://www.saulleiterfoundation.org...j6xtvaxbcf6ve1
Tin Can
Thanks for sharing.
+1
Yup he was a fantastic photographer.
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I’ve always been fascinated by his work (and a few others) in a somewhat different way than the work of most of the other photographers I like. I might not be explaining this clearly but when it comes to the majority of the photos I’m a fan of, I can imagine having been at the scene/location and noticed the potential, perhaps made a similar photo, etc. When I look at Leiter’s stuff my reaction instead is more like “nope, wouldn’t have seen that”, “nope, wouldn’t have thought to do that” LOL. I think it’s the vantage points, mostly. Every shot is a unique/creative way of having photographed the subject matter.
Welcome to Saul Leiter, TC if you didn't know him before.
I rate him as one of the all-time greats.
There are a few Interesting Youtube items about him, but the best I saw was a lengthy film showing him working with an assistant and archivist towards the end of his life to discover and archive all of the un-shown and unpublished work stored in his apartment. He came over as a thoroughly interesting man with a great sense of humour. It's interesting that many of the best photographers in history were either painters before, or studied art, or the history of art.
I really love his work. I don't generally shoot color, but I went out one day with my digital to try to emulate his style. I found the layers, I found the reflections, but I couldn't find the color. Everything is brown and green and gray here. Leiter photographs color - not merely a photograph that's in color.
I think Saul preceded Viv in age and activity
My first wife born in USA Occupied Berlin 1946
French Canada took them
Tin Can
In the film it mentioned that there were sadly about 200 un-processed rolls of Kodachrome in his collection.
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