A new documentary about photographer and painter, Saul Leiter, is a reflection not only on the artist but on life and art in general. Best known for his quiet, and often abstract, color street photography, the trailer above shows Leiter in a cluttered apartment taking a modest view of his decades of influence.
At age 89, Leiter now sits on a body of work that exists on the periphery of the art world while simultaneously being widely regarded as one of the pioneering visions of color photography. In No Great Hurry was directed by British filmmaker Tomas Leach, and takes us into this contradiction of fame versus impact.
The film, which is now looking for contributions as it makes its way through the post-production phase, is an extension of the director's role as the creative director of a web-based short documentary series on creative people and their ideas called Little Scraps of Paper.
Leiter’s photographic work was previously brought together in book-form in 2006 with Stiedl’s publishing of Early Color.
