Photograph: Saul Leiter Foundation/Howard Greenberg Gallery Leiter’s late recognition brought him the kind of attention he had long avoided. Saul Leiter wurde als Sohn des aus Osteuropa eingewanderten Rabbiners Wolf Leiter und seiner Frau Regine Leiter, geb. Born in pittsburgh in 1923, our master photographer Saul Leiter started getting into art in his late teens. Dismiss Visit. It sparked a withdrawal from public life, and for much of the rest of his days, he lived and worked in a reclusive, solitary fashion.Leiter’s apartment was near Saint Mark’s Place. He sometimes includes a few of his prints, tilted against a wall or scattered on the floor.

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Chromogenic print on Fuji Crystal Archive paper, 13 1/8 x 9 inches (...Lot 74097: SAUL LEITER (American, b. There’s an irony here, for, while he would never have known it when he first moved in, Saint Mark’s Place gradually became Little Tokyo – one of the largest communities of Japanese people living anywhere beyond the homeland.It is this private, personal photography that is leading to a reappraisal of Leiter’s work.

His family expected him to follow his father – to attend theology school and become a Rabbi. The Saul Leiter Foundation is dedicated to the preservation of the art of American photographer and painter Saul Leiter (1923-2013) Mutable glass is a perfect subject for Leiter because it allows him to superimpose two or more planes of composition, like an old-fashioned mechanical overlay taped in place on the base artwork. Saul Leiter Auch er sollte Rabbi werden und besuchte in den 1930er-Jahren die Talmudical Academy in New York City. All Rights Reserved. He became immersed in the ornate minimalism of Japanese art, particularly the revolutionaryThrough his classes, he befriended the painter Richard Pousette-Dart, an abstract expressionist who was on social terms with the photographer W Eugene Smith. He lived there for the entirety of his life in New York, and the vast majority of the many thousands of photographs he took of the city were taken within two blocks of his home.

1935 erhielt er von seiner Mutter eine Detrola-Kamera, mit der er gelegentlich fotografierte. Check out our resources for adapting to these times. Auctions .

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Doch statt sich für Religion zu begeistern, entwickelte der jugendliche Leiter eine Faszination für Kunst.

Like you said Rick, the different planes of composition also give a poster-like overlay quality.