Saul Leiter (1923-2013) was an American photographer best known for his pioneering role in the use of color photography. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to an Orthodox Jewish family. Leiter ...

His contemporary, Robert Frank, became internationally famous – mainly as the result of his seminal book The Americans, 1958; but while he was given a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA ...

Saul Leiter had a thing for umbrellas. They pepper his mid-century photographs of New York, popping up over years of work: pink umbrellas, red umbrellas, yellow umbrellas. Their owners remain hidden ...

Certain big names emerged among postwar American street photographers. Saul Leiter wasn’t one of them. He moved to New York in the mid-’40s, began shooting urban scenes in black-and-white, and ...

A centenary exhibition of Saul Leiter’s photos reveals his painterly way with Kodachrome. And a new book suggests that Garry Winogrand worked best in black-and-white. By Arthur Lubow When Saul Leiter ...

Saul Leiter was born in 1923 in Pittsburgh and it was not until a few years ago that his work received due recognition for its pioneering role in the emergence of colour photography. As early as 1946, ...

Saul Leiter came to notice in the early 1950s with his inventive color photographs of New York City street life; he loved to shoot figures through rain-misted windows and often used a vertical frame ...

Last weekend, the Milwaukee Art Museum opened "Street Seen," an exhibit revealing six photographers whose style defined New York Photography in the '40s, '50s and '60s. Last week, I had the chance to ...

The lyricism and intensity of his vision come into fullest play in his eloquent handling of color unequaled by his contemporaries. Leiter's visual language of fragmentation, ambiguity, and contingency ...

Your Instagram posts will never be as brilliant as the 1950s-era color photography of pioneer Saul Leiter. Often obstructed by such natural interventions as window reflections or winter fog, his work ...

Image: 13.5 x 8.88 in. (34.29 x 22.56 cm.) Canopy is an iconic example of Saul Leiter’s color photography, exemplifying his closely cropped, intimate compositions highlighting daily life. Depicting a ...