![]() There he came into contact with the Abstract Expressionist movement and joined the New York school which led him to start his photographic works, first in black and white and subsequently in color so much so that he was mentioned as a color photographer in the conference held in MoMa in 1957 by E. ![]() ![]() Saul Leiter, Newspaper Kiosk, New York City, 1955 Saul Leiter, New York, 1950sīorn in Pittsburgh in 1923, son of an important Rabbi, he started studying theology at the Telshe Yeshiva Tabbinical College in Cleveland but left in 1946 in order to live in the Big Apple and pursue his desire to become a painter. His friendship with photo-journalist Eugene Smith and seeing Cartier-Bresson’s production, inspired the young Leiter to devote himself to photography as well as painting. Saul Leiter, for example, was very impressed with photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, whose works were exhibited at MoMA in 1947 after he founded the photography agency Magnum Photos with Robert Capa and David Seymour in New York in the same year. ![]() After World War II the centre of the arts shifted from Paris and Europe to New York and the United States which offered shelter to the artists who fled from the conflict and joined the local ones in order to start a new chapter of contemporary art. ![]()
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