PAST EXHIBITION

Saul Leiter Women

May 9, 2008—June 21, 2008

Saul Leiter's ground-breaking work in photography and painting is only now receiving the international recognition it deserves. Howard Greenberg Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition centered on the theme of women, a subject often visited by Saul Leiter throughout his career in his color, black and white and painted photographs.

Born in Pittsburgh in 1923, Saul Leiter was the son of a distinguished Talmudic rabbi. Leiter's interest in art began in his late teens, and in 1946, when he was 23, he left Cleveland and moved to New York City to pursue painting. That year he met the Abstract Expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart, who was also experimenting with photography. Leiter's friendship with Pousette-Dart, and soon after with W. Eugene Smith, and the photography exhibitions he saw in New York, particularly that of Henri Cartier-Bresson at the Museum of Modern Art in 1947, inspired his growing interest in photography.

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