"Leiter’s sensibility . . . placed him outside the visceral confrontations with urban anxiety associated with photographers such as Robert Frank or William Klein. Instead, for him the camera provided an alternate way of seeing, of framing events and interpreting reality. He sought out moments of quiet humanity in the Manhattan maelstrom, forging a unique urban pastoral from the most unlikely of circumstances."
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Martin Harrison, in Saul Leiter : Early Color (2005)
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Saul Leiter
Saul Leiter (3 December 1923 – 26 November 2013) was an American photographer and painter.
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