mgscheu wrote:
Worth getting if I already have the centennial book?
I’ve not seen the The Centennial Retrospective. I purchased the linked book because it was published while the artist was alive. I suspect that the Centennial book has a greater range of images. I would hope that they did an equally great job of printing.
p.2 #11 · The painterly photography of Saul Leiter
I sat through a lecture last week on Degas, who painted as photography began. The lecturer was going on about his break from the rules of classical composition due to the new asian influence at the time. Maybe, but his compositions look more about freezing an uncontrolled, almost random moment in life. It's certain that he "learned" it studying photographs. Some of Leiter's photos are composed like his paintings. There is a connection.
p.2 #12 · The painterly photography of Saul Leiter
Saul's photos certainly don't follow any conventional rules of composition, but what's more important is how he limited the amount of colors that were in the frame so that each one that WAS present pulled some weight. He was clearly a student of color theory.
In his photos that were nearly devoid of any color, he was very clever and judicious with his use of lines. Who could get away with something like this today?
p.2 #13 · The painterly photography of Saul Leiter
taildraggin wrote:
I sat through a lecture last week on Degas, who painted as photography began. The lecturer was going on about his break from the rules of classical composition due to the new asian influence at the time. Maybe, but his compositions look more about freezing an uncontrolled, almost random moment in life. It's certain that he "learned" it studying photographs. Some of Leiter's photos are composed like his paintings. There is a connection.
From the opening statement on my website.
My background as a painter and illustrator has inevitably influenced my photographic work
Being painter and photographer of course there's a connection, it would be weird if there wasn't.
