That greatness, though, was evident in his often painterly images, which evoked the flow and rhythm of life on the mid-century streets of New York in luminous colour, at a time when his contemporaries were shooting in black and white. 'I'm not carried away by the greatness of Mr Leiter.' 'What makes anyone think that I'm any good?' he asked Tomas Leach, who directed the feature-length documentary In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life With Saul Leiter (2012). Even then, Leiter was reluctant to accept the belated praise heaped upon him. A pioneer of colour, he remained relatively unsung until he was rediscovered by curators and critics in his early 80s. Saul Leiter, who has died aged 89, was one of the quiet men of American photography.

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^ 'Interview with Tomas Leach, Director of 'In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter' '.It was released in Japan in December 2015. The film was released in the UK in the summer of 2013, the USA in January 2014. Leiter saw an edit of the film before he died. Filming took place over 20, and the film was edited in 2012.

He met with Leiter in New York and spent a year persuading the photographer that there needed to be a film about him. Leach contacted Leiter after seeing his work in Early Color. The film documents Leiter in his chaotic home in New York City, as he looks back on his life and work. Interest in his work exploded in the last years of his life, and since his death in 2013. His most personal work was largely ignored until the release of Early Color in 2006. Leiter was an early pioneer of color street photography. In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter is a 2013 documentary film about the photographer Saul Leiter directed and produced by Tomas Leach.

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