“I really don’t think I was influenced by anyone. I think I will leave it up to someone else to determine who influenced me. I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.”

— Saul Leiter

Saul Leiter: The Quiet Iconoclast (2009)

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