Snow Window
1959 · Silver dye-bleach print
Image: 34.3 × 22.6 cm (13 9/16 × 8 15/16 in.); Paper: 35.8 × 28.2 cm (14 1/8 × 11 1/8 in.)
Art Institute of Chicago
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Saul Leiter
American, 1923
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12
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19
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The Photo Essay
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1965
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30th Anniversary Special Installation - Towards the "New" Museum
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1959
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Photographs from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1958–1959
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Always the Young Strangers
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1953
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Saul Leiter was an American photographer and painter who pioneered color photography in the 1950s when the medium was considered marginal to serious art practice. Working in New York, he developed a distinctly modernist approach to color, layering translucent planes of hue and compositional restraint that treat the urban street as an abstract field. His photographs and paintings share a meditative quality, often framing fragments of architecture, figures, and reflected light with an emphasis on chromatic relationships over narrative. Leiter's formal investigations anticipate concerns that would dominate postwar abstraction while remaining rooted in observed reality.
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Museum of Modern Art
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