![Atop Empire State- in construction; Chrysler Bldg & [Daily] News in middle foreground. (1931)](../../../img/Atop-Empire-State-in-construction-Chrysler-Bldg-Daily-News-in-middle-foreground.-1931--199x123.jpg "Balancing on the Empire State")
‘Saul Leiter (born 1923) is an American photographer and painter whose early work in the 1940s and 1950s was an important contribution to what came to be recognized as The New York School’
- Wikipedia
Colour photographs of New York, 1950s, by Saul Leiter
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before the graffiti. beautiful.
So so good, showing most art photographers up for the charlatans that they are.
Ah…. Walk/Don’t Walk. It’s the simple things we miss.
Stunning. I am especially enamoured by the red umbrella in the snow.
Beautiful stuff, but how’d that cable-corded, pushbutton pay phone sneak into the 1950′s?
Don Draper would have loved these, but one of them is repeated (look for 463). Brilliant!
Beautiful–but that metal pay phone (12th from bottom) is not from the 50s–it’s a 1980s-present NYC subway pay phone. All the rest look absolutely genuine!
truly, truly wonderful shots. What an eye for mood and structure. Particularly No 7. More than good, great.
Sense of colour and composition – immpecable. Selection of point of focus – sublime.