Saul Leiter: Early Color
FromPDN, The Legends Issue, 2007Leiter's  place is now assured. He will forever be known as one of the first  photographers to use color in a serious, artistic way. Meticulously  printed, his pictures use muted colors...that help tamp down the volume and  motion of frenetic city streets. His prism tempers the more anxious,  acerbic portrayal of city life offered by his peers Robert Frank and  William Klein...Leiter's photographs are as likely to be compared to  abstract expressionist painters like Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman or Richard  Pousett-Dart.