Woman by Saul Leiter5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() The bedsheets are inviting indeed”, writes Michael Parillo from the Leiter Foundation in his extensive closing essay. The women in these pictures look comfortable, sometimes sleepy, in their (usually quite natural) poses. You can smell the cigarette smoke, hear the classical music playing on the radio. “Leiter was a bit of a homebody, and his observations often convey the stillness and quiet of an ordinary afternoon at home. Among them were thousands and thousands of printed nude photographs of women, most of them taken between the 1940s and the 1980s, never before exhibited or shown. ![]() After Saul Leiter’s passing away at age 89 in 2013, he left behind two apartments in New York’s East Village filled with photographs and art created during his long, productive life. ![]()
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