![]() ![]() (Ready to fill up the forthcoming photobook wings of the Met and British museums, yes?) And Leiter of course fits right in. I use the phrase Old Master purposefully, because more and more we should consider greats such as Robert Frank, Berenice Abbott, William Klein, Walker Evans, Diane Arbus, William Eggleston, Nan Goldin, Daido Moriyama as just that, Old Masters. He was suddenly celebrated widely, and in effect he became an overnight Old Master of the photobook. Every photo in the book was strong, and Leiter’s reputation was made. What a sad and jubilant career Saul Leiter had! From some success shooting fashion (and fashioning his own groundbreaking color shots) back in the 1950s and ’60s, he went quiet as a photographer until 2006, when Steidl put out “Early Color,” in which we got one lovely, delicate, mysterious color shot after another. ![]()
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