Amateur Photographer

Saul Leiter: The Centennial Retrospective by Margit Erb and Michael Parillo

£60, Thames & Hudson, hardcover, 352 pages, ISBN: 9780500545577

They say it takes 10,000 hours to master your craft. Photographing or painting nearly every day for 60 years must have seen Saul Leiter become a master many times over.

It doesn’t take much flicking through this book to realise that that most definitely is true. Celebrated now for his novel use of colour during a time

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