“In order to build a career and to be successful, one has to be determined.

I do not think that misery is more profound than happiness.” Some photographers think that by taking pictures of human misery, they are addressing a serious problem. I have great regard for certain notions of beauty even though to some it is an old-fashioned idea. “I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. In my own work, they have both been equally important.” His Famous Quotes for you: Leiter has said about his own photography: “I don’t believe that black and white is sacred or that color is profane. Jane Livingston wrote, “The very fact that color becomes the subject of the photographs places Leiter’s work in another realm-a realm that is unabashedly artistic.” Mr. He tends not to be in any hurry for he has published just a single book on his color pictures.

The essence of art and minimalism in every vertical frame of his photographs shows us his vision. Saul continues to laud with his vision for warm colors and peculiar street captures. Speaking about his pictures, it’s brilliant to choose colors as your subject in any kind of photography, in a way challenging too. He is known to have appeared in numerous solo and group exhibitions around the globe.

Initially, he pursued to do some painting, later his new friendship with fellow master photographer W.Eugene Smith and Richard Pousette-Dart pulled him into the art of photography.Ĭolors at their finest best, warm and cold tones creating a wonderful sense of comfort for our visual organs seem to be an easy doing for Saul. Born in Pittsburgh in 1923, our master photographer Saul Leiter started getting into art in his late teens.

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