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18. Because Saul Leiter Loved How New York Looks Through a Window Covered in Raindrops

  • Published Dec 15, 2013

For over 60 years, Leiter, who died in November at 89, took color photographs of his city—mostly those blocks near his home in the East Village, and mostly using 35-mm. Kodachrome that was past its sell-by date.

Below: Driver, ca. 1950s.


(Photo: © Saul Leiter/Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York)

Times Square, ca. 1950s.


(Photo: © Saul Leiter/Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York)

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