Leiter’s friendship with Pousette-Dart, and later with W. In this neighborhood he met the abstract expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart, who was experimenting with photography. Leiter’s apartment had good natural light, ideal for a painter, and he would live there for the rest of his life.
In 1946, when he was 22 years old, suffocated by his family’s expectations where it was their intention that he become a rabbi just like his father and most of the other men in his family, Saul imagined something completely different for his life: he abandoned his theological studies and moved to New York City to devote himself to painting.Īfter living for a few years on Perry Street in Greenwich Village, Leiter settled in a small apartment on East 10th Street, in a neighborhood known for cheap rents that attracted young artists, such as Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, and where the pictorial avant-garde lived. His interest in painting began at the end of his adolescence. Saul Leiter, the son of a distinguished Talmudic scholar, was born in Pittsburgh in 1923. After he moved to New York City in 1946, his visionary imagination and tireless devotion to artistic practice prompted him to become one of the iconic photographers of the mid-20th century.Ī sense of innate curiosity made him a student of art of all kinds during all his life, and he retained his spirit of exploration and spontaneity throughout his long career, in his fashion images as well as his personal work. American artist Saul Leiter (1923–2013) was delighted with painting and photography as a teenager in Pittsburgh.
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