How to Shoot Like Saul Leiter The Complete Field Guide This guide is about subtraction, restraint, and silence. If Matt Black confronts, Saul Leiter withdraws. If Matt Black compresses the world into darkness, Saul Leiter dissolves it into fragments. This is not street photography as documentation. It is street photography as quiet painting . To shoot like Saul Leiter, you must: stop explaining scenes, stop centering subjects, stop trying to show everything. Your goal is not to describe the street. Your goal is to suggest it . WHO IS SAUL LEITER & WHAT MAKES HIS LOOK UNIQUE? Saul Leiter was a painter first, photographer second. That fact explains everything. While his contemporaries photographed gestures and events, Leiter photographed: reflections, obstructions, color fields, partial figures. His images feel private, almost accidental—yet they are deeply intentional. He did not chase moments. He waited for compositions . The Saul Leiter Visual Si...
"The camera is an instrument that teaches people to see without a camera" - Dorothea Lange