His subjects were anything he deemed interesting: passers-by, shop windows, street signs and cars among other things. Leiter, who died in 2013, combined street photography with portraiture, fashion and architecture in ways that remain relevant today. He is now regarded as a leading figure in the field and the new retrospective at The Photographers’ Gallery is the first major UK-based show of his work. The photographer only gained recognition for his work much later in his life, with Tomas Leach’s 2012 film, In No Great Hurry: 13 Life Lessons with Saul Leiter, feeling like the first real insight into the reserved photographer’s career. Soon after moving, Leiter was introduced to photography by American artist Richard Pousette-Dart and it became his main source of artistic output. In 1946 Saul Leiter left Pennsylvania for New York City in pursuit of a creative career, abandoning his theological studies at rabbinical school.
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