Unknown Woman Eating Unknown Food (Tribute To Saul Leiter), by atacart

An up-to-the-minute snapshot of the fine art photography marketplace: full-screen slideshow preview of photos from Paris Photo 2013. This photo: Folsom at Fremont, 2013 © John Chiara, Von Lintel Gallery

Today his photography is acclaimed by film directors and museum curators. So why were Leiter’s poetic images of New York ignored by the art world for decades?

Snowfall, New York, 1952

Since its inception over forty years ago, Howard Greenberg Gallery has built a vast and ever-changing collection of some of the most important photographs in the medium. The Gallery's collection acts as a living history of photography, offering genres and styles from Pictorialism to Modernism, in addition to contemporary photography and images conceived for industry, advertising, and fashion. Maintaining diverse and extensive holdings of photographic prints, the gallery includes such masters…

Saul Leiter. Party. c. 1950. Gelatin silver print. 13 1/4 × 9 3/4" (33.7 × 24.8 cm). Gift of the Estate of Saul Leiter. 329.2016. © 2025 Estate of Saul Leiter. Photography

Michael Almereyda, introduction

Now recognized as one of the great photographers of the 20th century, he embraced color when most professional photographers were still loyal to black and white.

Photo: Saul Leiter.