
Through Boards
Saul Leiter's Through Boards is a chromogenic print that demonstrates his masterful use of color and composition in street photography.
- Medium
- Chromogenic print, printed later.
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
ULTIMATE Evening & Photographs Day Sales
May 18, 2018
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Fan Ho
Chinese-Hong Kong · b. 1931
Fan Ho's street photography shares Leiter's poetic approach to urban environments, using geometric framing and atmospheric light to transform everyday city scenes into painterly compositions with strong formal qualities.

Ernst Haas
Austrian · b. 1921

Ernst Haas was a pioneering color street photographer who similarly used chromogenic prints to explore urban life with an impressionistic sensibility, treating color as an expressive and compositional element rather than mere documentation.

Vivian Maier
American · b. 1926

Vivian Maier's street photography captures candid urban moments with a sophisticated compositional eye, sharing Leiter's ability to find intimate and quietly poetic scenes within the busy texture of city life.
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