Café, Paris
Saul Leiter captures the essence of Parisian street life in this photograph titled Café, Paris. The work showcases Leiter's masterful use of color and composition in documenting urban moments.
- Location
- Sotheby's, New York, NY
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🔨 Auction Lot
Photographs
May 13, 2022
Estimate: $4,000 to $6,000
Lot 33
Artists in conversation
Vivian Maier
American · b. 1926
Maier shares Leiter's gift for capturing candid, intimate moments of urban street life with a keen compositional eye and a focus on the quiet poetry found in everyday city scenes.
Ernst Haas
Austrian · b. 1921
Haas was a pioneering color street photographer who, like Leiter, used saturated hues and painterly framing to transform ordinary urban moments into visually serene and emotionally resonant images.
Helen Levitt
American · b. 1913
Levitt's color street photography shares Leiter's quiet, observational approach to urban life, finding beauty and stillness in candid figurative moments set against the backdrop of city streets.
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