Saul Leiter, photographer

Today's discovery thanks to Teju Cole: Saul Leiter (1923–2013), whose photographic work in the 1940s and 1950s especially, with color film especially, earned him a name within the New York School of photography. He later went on to work as a fashion photographer for the top fashion magazines. Here are a few of his shots, so many of which feature umbrellas and weather, and NYC urbanscapes. Gritty and beautiful at once. (I didn't record all the titles and dates, sorry...)

Red Umbrella, 1958

Lanesville, 1958

Straw Hat, 1955

Walking with Soames, 1958

Through Boards, 1957

Canopy, 1958

Snow, 1960

Pink Umbrella, c. 1950

Here's what Teju Cole says about Leiter: 

The content of Saul Leiter's photographs arrives on a sort of delay: it takes a  moment after the first glance to know what the picture is about. You don't so much see the image as let it dissolve into your consciousness, like a tablet in a glass of water. One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent. Precisely how the hypnotic and dreamlike feeling is achieved in Leiter's works is a mystery, even to their creater. As he said in In No Great Hurry, laughing, "If I'd only known which ones would be very good and liked, I wouldn't have had to do all the thousands of others."