The Streets of NYC
The Streets of NYC
February 21, 2024
Saul Leiter, Footprints, c. 1950
© Saul Leiter Foundation
For more than six decades, Leiter photographed and painted almost every day. A master of discovering beauty in the ordinary, he frequently found inspiration in his immediate neighbourhood: the East Village in Lower Manhattan, where he spent his entire adult life. His evocative New York street scenes from the 1950s and 60s are now the subject of a major survey at the MK Gallery in Milton Keynes.
When Leiter passed away in 2013, he left behind a remarkable collection of around 15,000 black and white prints, at least 40,000 colour slides, a similar number of black and white negatives and over 4000 paintings, only a handful of which had seen the light of day. Once lost to obscurity, his work has since been rediscovered and revaluated for its groundbreaking role in the emergence of colour photography.
An Unfinished World is the largest UK exhibition of Leiter’s work to date, featuring 171 photographs along with 40 of his lesser-known paintings.
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At Hamburg’s Deichtorhallen the complete works of the New York artist Saul Leiter are being presented for the first time anywhere in the world. More
Saul Leiter, Footprints, c. 1950
© Saul Leiter Foundation
Saul Leiter, Harlem, 1960
© Saul Leiter Foundation
Saul Leiter, Untitled, undated
© Saul Leiter Foundation
Saul Leiter, Ana, 1950s
© Saul Leiter Foundation