The space in Saul’s apartments changed from the time I first met him to the time I last visited him. Originally tidy and spare, his apartments later developed into cluttered over-crowded surrealistic tangles of objet d’eart and papers.

Sep 25, 2017 · Two years after the New York School photographer Saul Leiter died, François Halard had the good fortune to come across the East Village apartment where Leiter lived for more than half a...

Apr 3, 2014 · Saul Leiter lived in an apartment on a quiet street in New York’s East Village, a neighborhood that evolved, during the six decades he lived there, nearly as much as Leiter himself.

Sep 25, 2017 · Two years after the New York School photographer Saul Leiter died, François Halard had the good fortune to come across the East Village apartment where Leiter lived for more than half a...

In 2016, François Halard visited the late American painter and photographer Saul Leiter’s almost empty apartment in the East Village, three years after his passing, in 2013. He took photographs of the decrepit walls, the empty closet, and of what Saul Leiter had left behind.

Nov 21, 2023 · Saul Leiter photographed and painted nearly every day for over sixty years, amassing an enormous archive, most of which remained unseen during his lifetime. Finding inspiration within a few blocks of his apartment in lower Manhattan, he was a master at discovering beauty in the most ordinary places.

Jan 24, 2019 · Saul Leiter, American painter and photographer, was part of what was known as the New York school of photography of the 1940s and 50s, and resided on East 10th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues for 61 years until his death in 2013.

Nov 27, 2013 · Saul Leiter is sitting in the corner of his East Village studio apartment nibbling on a madeleine. The room is dense with photographs and paintings, piles of books, partially worked canvases, stacks of newspapers, and a collection of cameras, watches and pens, the last of which are arrayed like bouquets in cups.

Leiter’s most substantial body of work over that he produced over 60 years happened within a couple blocks of his apartment. This is an impressive exercise in constraints especially in today’s Instagram era of photography.

Oct 2, 2020 · “Saul Leiter: In Stillness” is a biographical work that depicts the interior and exterior of Saul’s apartment along with his objects. Saul lived on East Tenth Street for sixty years. Within a few blocks of the East Village, he found many beautiful things, which brought to life his belief that “mysterious things happen in familiar places”.