Saul Leiter: Creating Mood with Color
Channel: Chroma
Date: 2023-05-18

“There are the things that are out in the open, and there are the things that are hidden. The real world has more to do with what is hidden.” ― Saul Leiter

I. Intro to Leiter 0:00
II. Leiter’s hiding and showing 1:10
III. Expression through color 6:33
IV. What are we supposed to feel? 11:28

Resources: 
• In No Great Hurry (2013)
• Saul Leiter Foundation https://www.saulleiterfoundation.org/ 
• Howard Greenberg Gallery https://www.howardgreenberg.com/artists/saul-leiter 
• Friend and assistant Margit Erb on Leiter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsTh0dujQIE 
• Saul Leiter’s unseen images https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2022/nov/03/saul-leiter-american-photographer-unseen-images

• The Rothko Effect: Why Does Art Move Us? https://www.phillips.com/article/72737375/the-rothko-effect-why-does-art-move-us-twentieth-century-contemporary-art-london 
• A Rothko a day https://dailyrothko.tumblr.com/ 
• The Mysterious Appeal of Art That Depicts Figures from Behind https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-mysterious-appeal-art-depicts-figures 
• History of vermillion red https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermilion 

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