1901–1983 · United States · Photographer
Lisette Model
Frank, close-up street portraits with a blunt humanism.
Promenade des Anglais, 1934Source: Wikipedia
PHOTOGRAPHER · 1923–2013 · UNITED STATES
Saul Leiter
Painterly colour street photography seen through glass, snow and reflections.
- Born
- 1923
- Died
- 2013
- Country
- United States
- Field
- Photographer
KNOWN FOR
- 2006Early Color
- 2008Early Black and White
WHY THEY MATTER
Shown at the Museum of Modern Art in 1953; first European museum exhibition at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation (2008); recognised as part of the New York School of photographers.
THE LIFE
Leiter grew up the son of a Talmud scholar and studied to become a rabbi before leaving for New York to paint. He soon took up a 35 mm Leica and, from the late 1940s, made colour street pictures long before colour was accepted as art. He worked as a fashion photographer for Esquire and Harper's Bazaar. The 2006 book Saul Leiter Early Color brought his colour work wide recognition late in life.
WHAT THEY SHOT WITH
Leica
Also born in 1900–1929
1902–1984 · United States · Photographer
Ansel Adams
Sharp black-and-white landscapes of the American West with full tonal range.
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, 1941Source: Wikipedia
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Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Poetic, quietly surreal views of Mexican life.
Striking Worker, Assassinated, 1934Source: Wikipedia
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Lola Alvarez Bravo
Modernist portraits and street pictures of postrevolutionary Mexico.
Galería de Arte Contemporáneo (Frida Kahlo exhibition), 1953Source: Wikipedia
1903–1975 · United States · Photographer
Walker Evans
Frontal, plain-spoken records of American vernacular life.
American Photographs, 1938Source: Wikipedia
1904–1983 · United Kingdom · Photographer
Bill Brandt
High-contrast social documentary, then distorted nudes and stark landscapes.
The English at Home, 1936Source: Wikipedia