How brave was the photographer, occluding most of the colour image in darkness, something that had never been done before and has rarely been seen since. You should be painted by Rembrandt or Hals, but not by Caravaggio.”
“After the age of 75 you should not be photographed. “It is not where it is or what it is that matters, but how you see it.” If we look and look, we begin to see and are still left with the pleasure of uncertainty.” We don’t know why the photographer has taken such a picture. “I like it when one is not certain of what one sees.
© Saul Leiter / Courtesy Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York Tags: 35mm Kodachrome colour slide film, abstract colour photography, Abstract Expressionism, abstract photography, abstraction, alienation, Always the young strangers, American avant-garde, American painter, american photographer, American photography, American street photography, arts, black and white photography, Carol Brown, city, colour photography, cubist changes of perspective, early American colour photography, early colour photography, Edward Steichen, Edward Steichen Always the Young Strangers, fashion photography, From the El, Graffiti Heads, Harper's Bazaar, history of photography, Kodachrome colour slide film, Kunst Haus Wien, master of colour photography, melancholy, MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York City, New York School, New York street photography, Nova magazine, painting metamorphosed into photography, Photographic abstractions, Photographs by William Eggleston, portraiture, reflections, Saul Leiter, Saul Leiter Carol Brown, Saul Leiter From the El, Saul Leiter Graffiti Heads, Saul Leiter Harlem, Saul Leiter Hat, Saul Leiter Kutztown, Saul Leiter New York, Saul Leiter Nude, Saul Leiter Pizza, Saul Leiter Reflection, Saul Leiter Shirt, Saul Leiter Shopping, Saul Leiter Sign Painter, Saul Leiter Soames Bantry, Saul Leiter Street Scene, Saul Leiter Taxi, Saul Leiter Walking, semiabstract urban space, Soames Bantry, stephen shore, still life, street photography, subjective observations, subjective photography, the city, urban space, urbanscape, Vienna, William EgglestonĮxhibition dates: 31st January – 26th May 2013
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