When I visited London earlier this month, his retrospective was on the top of my list of photo exhibitions to see. That kind of indifference to success is refreshingly rare these days, and I’m sorry to flout the late Mr. He tells writer Adam Harrison Levy that he preferred his early years of obscurity to his late success, saying, “I embrace my own unimportance,” and, “I’m used to being left alone.” Before reading a word of it, he would have deemed it “too much.” In the first essay in Saul Leiter, a new monograph that accompanies the Leiter retrospective currently at The Photographers Gallery in London, Leiter states his opinion that art should speak for itself and not be written about. Saul Leiter would have hated this article.
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