On Photography - Saul Leiter / Sam Stourdze

Shadow - Chippendale (Tue 06 Oct 2015)

Saul Leiter on Photography:

I go out to take a walk. I see something. I take a picture. I take photographs.

via Saul Leiter or the art of going unnoticed by Sam Stourdze.

On Encouragement - Saul Leiter / Sam Stourdze (The Art of goingUnnoticed)

Street Portrait - Ultimo (Thu 07 May 2015)

Saul Leiter on Encouragement:

In my life I constantly heard "You can't do this. You should not do that." Yet I did so many things I was told I couldn't do.

via Saul Leiter or the Art of going unnoticed by Sam Stourdze.

On Reflection - Saul Leiter (Wed 19 Aug 2009) / Adam Harrison Levy (Wed 27 Nov 2013)

Reflection - Uluru (*) / Central Australia (Fri 04 May 2001)
Saul Leiter (*) tries to Reflects (*) on a Life (*) well Lived (*):

I don’t understand how I did what I did.

via Saul Leiter: Remembered (*) by Adam Harrison Levy (*).

On Saul Leiter - Saul Leiter Early Color / Martin Harrison (Jul 2005)

Untitled - Lower East Side / New York (Wed 17 Aug 2011)
Martin Harrison (*) writes on Saul Leiter (*), Color Photography (*) and embracing the Unpredictable (*):

Yet he found ways to circumvent these restrictions - exploiting the color distortions in outdated film stock and embracing the unpredictable color rendition in emulsions available from some of the smaller manufacturers. His openness to the accidental, and willingness to forgo the photographer's legendary control, are crucial components of Leiter's ethos, anticipating precepts that remained exceptional, even among photography's avante-garde, until the advent of postmodernism in the 1970's.

via SAUL LEITER Early Color (*) by Martin Harrison (*).

On Saul Leiter - Tomas Leach (Fri 22 Aug 2014)

Untitled - Manhattan Bridge - Brooklyn (Mon 22 Aug 2011)
Tomas Leach (*) on Saul Leiter (*):

Saul’s greatest lesson was to believe in yourself and your own way of seeing the world.

Tomas admired Saul's:

ability to be himself in his work and in his life.

via The Legendary Photographer Who Captured the Softer Side of NYC - Wired (*) by Pete Brook (*).

More On Photography - Saul Leiter - Sean O'Hagan / The Guardian (Sat 30 Nov 2013)

Covered - Split / Croatia (Wed 31 Jul 2013)
Saul Leiter (*) talks more on the mysteries of Photography (*):

I like it when one is not certain what one sees, [..] When we do not know why the photographer has taken a picture and when we do not know why we are looking at it, all of a sudden we discover something that we start seeing. I like this confusion.

via Saul Leiter obituary (*) by Sean O'Hagan (*).

On Photography - Saul Leiter / The New Yorker (Thu 28 Nov 2013)

Street Portrait #10 - Sagrada Familia (*) / Barcelona (Thu 08 Aug 2013)
Saul Leiter (*) talks about the mysteries of Photography (*):

There are the things that are out in the open and then there are the things that are hidden, and life has more to do, the real world has more to do with what is hidden, maybe. You think?

via POSTSCRIPT: SAUL LEITER (1923-2013) (*) by Teju Cole (*).

On Photography - Teju Cole / The New Yorker (Thu 28 Nov 2013)

Covered - Budapest (*) / Hungary (Tue 16 Jul 2013)
Teju Cole (*) writes On Photography (*):

One of the difficulties of photography (*) is that it is much better at being explicit (*) than at being reticent (*).

via POSTSCRIPT: SAUL LEITER (1923-2013) (*) by Teju Cole (*).