![]() ![]() He liked the muted effect it had on his pictures. He used colour Kodachrome film in the 1950s and 60s before it was fashionable – the Museum of Modern Art in New York didn’t show an exhibition of colour photography until 1976 – this film was expensive and so Leiter would buy stuff that was past it’s sell-by-date. Leiter was a mid-century, New York street photographer who started out as a painter and went on to be commissioned by Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and Elle. New York, fashion, photography – I’m there. His family expected him to follow his father to attend theology school and become a Rabbi. Feeling in desperate need of inspiration, myself (it’s true what they say about all work and no play), I took myself along to a preview of the Saul Leiter exhibition at The Photographer’s Gallery. Saul Leiter was born in 1923 in Pittsburgh, the son of a renowned Jewish theological scholar. ![]() Beautifully shot by the cinematographer Ed Lachman, Carol was visually inspired by the work of the late photographer Saul Leiter. If you’ve seen the Todd Haynes’ film Carol these pictures will feel very familiar. ![]()
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