Elliott Erwitt. FIFTY ONE Fine Art Photography Gallery - Artists. Although Edward Steichen exhibited some of Saul Leiter’s color photographs at the Museum of Modern Art in 1953, for forty years afterwards they remained virtually unknown to the art world. Leiter moved to New York in 1946 intending to be a painter and through his friendship with the abstract expressionist Richard Pousette-Dart he quickly recognized the creative potential of photography. Though he continued to paint, exhibiting alongside Philip Guston and Willem de Kooning, Leiter’s camera became — like an extension of his arm and mind — an ever-present interpreter of life in the metropolis. The semi-mythical notion of the ‘New York street photographer’ was born at the same time, in the late-1940s.
But Leiter’s sensibility — comparable to the European intimism of Bonnard, a painter he greatly admires — placed him outside the visceral confrontations with urban anxiety associated with photographers such as Robert Frank or William Klein. Stacy Kranitz. The Gordon Parks Foundation. Estevan Oriol | Josh Brolin. Homo Urbanus Europeanus - Portfolio. Jason Martini Photography. Albums photos de Maciej Dakowicz sur Flickr. Maciej Dakowicz - London based Reportage, NGO, Travel and Street Photographer. CONSTANTINE MANOS Photographer. Lukas Vasilikos. Eric Kim. Sagi Kortler. Vincent Peal. Daido Moriyama.