5/22/2023 0 Comments In my room saul leiter![]() ![]() Instead of seeking out the anxiety and pain that is so often the subject of street photographers, Leiter chose to seek out the moments of quiet beauty that exist within urban chaos. In this pursuit, Leiter developed a completely singular, idiosyncratic style of urban photography. Leiter instead eschewed fame and recognition in pursuit of something else – beauty itself. But unlike his contemporaries, his work never enjoyed any kind of fame. Operating mainly in the 1950s, Leiter existed as an unusually quiet exponent of the New York school of photography, a loose collection of New York-based photographers which house such famous shooters as Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, and Garry Winogrand. If I had to take a guess, I’d say that he was making a coy reference to his own career as well as the ethos of his art. “The real world has more to do with what’s hidden.” Ever the mysterious figure, Leiter leaves it at that, and lets us try to figure out what he means. “There are the things that are out in the open, and there are the things that are hidden,” muses Saul Leiter in the documentary on his life and work, In No Great Hurry. ![]()
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