The 2006 release of his first monograph, Early Color, revealed radically innovative compositions and a groundbreaking mastery of color that permanently changed the history of photography.

The 2006 release of his first monograph, Early Color, revealed radically innovative compositions and a groundbreaking mastery of color that permanently changed the history of photography. Though Leiter sometimes defended the use of color in fine-art photography, he refused to analyze or explain his own work.

Feb 22, 2024 · Leiter, who died in 2013, is now recognized as one of the great color photographers of the 20th century, a pioneer who embraced — and experimented with — color slide film when most...

Jan 16, 2024 · Saul often used color very specifically in a scene. Like Steve McCurry does, he also tries to work with only three basic colors in his photographs. The lead image shows us black and white —...

Dec 10, 2018 · Learn about the history and photography of Saul Leiter, a New York City street photographer and master of color photography

Jan 14, 2020 · As New York’s famous mid-century photographers set out to capture the city in shades of black and gray, Saul Leiter rendered its unassuming details in expressive color. Using temperamental expired film, Leiter saw the streets in sharp punches of red and vast seas of shadow. “Seeing is a neglected enterprise,” Leiter once said.

Apr 2, 2025 · Saul Leiter didn’t want to conquer the world. Nevertheless, he is celebrated today as the master of colour, exhibited at many great institutions and cited as a main influence by a number of photographers and filmmakers. A kind of legacy that would undoubtedly have made him want to just go home, to paint and drink coffee. ...

Apr 7, 2025 · Saul Leiter started shooting color and black-and-white street photography in New York in the 1940s. He had no formal training in photography, but the genius of his early work was quickly acknowledged by Edward Steichen, who included …

Oct 5, 2022 · These previously unpublished selections of 35mm slides confirm and extend the stubborn singularity of Leiter’s color language. Among the great or later-to-be-great New York photographers of the middle of the last century, Saul Leiter bested them all in caring the least about fame or legacy.

This second article on color photographers looks at the work of Saul Leiter. His color urban landscape work in New York in the 1950s is truly remarkable for its composition and for his early use of color at a time when black-and-white was considered the …