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Even then, Leiter was reluctant to accept the belated praise heaped upon him. A pioneer of colour, he remained relatively unsung until he was rediscovered by curators and critics in his early 80s. ​ Leiter has inspired a countless number of artists who work in not just photography, but film and art.Saul Leiter, who has died aged 89, was one of the quiet men of American photography. The real conditions of being in that city at that moment are revealed as palpable and beautiful and elemental in a way." While at times you think you're looking at an abstract painting, it actually gives such a specific sense of time and place because of the kind of light and how it plays on glass and how it interferes with dust and dirt and grime.

"Saul Leiter is a clear influence because he loved to do that and he did it so beautifully, disrupting his subject matter and finding planes of intersection and abstraction in his colour photography. Colour was the picture for him. ​ Leiter inspired the cinematography for one of my personal favourite movies, "Carol". Saul had a instinctive feel for colour and film. Saul Leiter's background as a painter and deep appreciation and knowledge of art history distinguished his approach to colour. Although he did print in black and white because it was cheaper to process. He initially worked in black and white but quickly discovered the impact of colour on his photographs and had passion for experimenting with colour which lasted through his whole career.

There he became friends with the Abstract Expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart who was experimenting with photography, Leiter saw for the first time a photographer who made art in their photos which made Saul interested in photography who thought you could only express art through painting.īy the 1950s, he began to work in colour photography.

He became interested in art in his late teens, against his parents wishes, he moved to New York to pursue painting when he was 23. Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh in 1923 and died in November 2013.