Saul Leiter
PersonalLeiter was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, on December 3, 1923.
He died on 26 November, 2013. (aged 89) |
HistoryHe attended theology school in his teens, after being encouraged to become a Rabbi, like his father. However, he gained an interest in art and aged 23, he moved to New York to pursue painting.
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InspirationIn New York, he became friends with Richard Pousette-Dart, an expressionist painter. Pousette-Dart was experimenting with photography.
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