‘There’s nothing quite like them’: Saul Leiter’s photos and paintings – in pictures

Jay, circa 1990 (painted from photograph taken 1958)

Michael Parillo of the Saul Leiter Foundation: ‘There is nothing else in his oeuvre quite like them. They bring out new dimensions of the subjects themselves. In some of the most effective examples, the women remain identifiable from Saul’s unpainted nudes yet, with a stroke here, a scratch of the brush there, become different people entirely’