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American, 1923 to 2013
Saul Leiter
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“I never thought of the urban environment as oppressing. I felt it was a place of poetry.”
The signature
Painterly early color, shot through rain, glass, and steam, with the subject half-hidden.
What to study
A painter who photographed, Leiter made quiet, abstract color long before it was respectable. Study how he uses reflections, fogged windows, umbrellas, and shallow focus to layer and obscure, finding poetry in a New York corner. He is the master of the partial view.
Why for Matias
His use of glass, rain, and reflection is exactly where your CPL and Bologna's wet streets meet. Study him for layered, painterly color.
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Best books
Early Color (2006)
The book that revealed him to the world.
In My Room (2018)
Intimate black-and-white nudes and interiors.