![]() ![]() This genius was unable to give anything up except the fame, something he has been evading for more than sixty years.įor the photographer, there was nothing more important in life that reading, looking at paintings and spending time with his wife, Soemes Bantry, who was the only person who believed in him when nobody else did. "I don't see any reason to be in a hurry," he says to Thomas Leach, the director by 'In No Great Hurry' (2013), the documentary about Leiter's last years and philosophy that was released a few time before his death. ![]() ![]() There are more than six decades of work spread around the flat, a messy tide of photographic negatives, paintings, boxes and more boxes of photos that he was supposed to archive but never did. Seated at his apartment, in the Greenwich Village from New York, Saul Leiter, the quiet photographer, can't keep its hands still. So, why? Let me guide you to 'In No Great Hurry' (2013) life's lessons: “People worry too much for many unimportant things”. "There's a tremendous advantage on being unimportant", stated. A few days ago it came to my mind what Leiter's said: Once I watched a great documentary by Thomas Leach about Saul Leiter's life and philosophy and wrote some words for a Spanish newspaper. ![]()
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