Saul Leiter
Saul Leiter was a painter who started photographing the New York world he lived in. I would suggest he never stopped being a painter, just his medium changed. His painterly approach is seen in his use of colour and obscuring elements such as reflections, rainy windows handout of focus foregrounds. He was one of the early pioneers of colour photography, starting in the 1950s. His New York street compositions show glimpses of a city as vibrant as the Kodachrome slide film he used, but rather than capturing the energy of the big city, Leiter’s photographs appear to show isolated moments.
