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" "I don’t need to belittle the work of present day photography. I see quite often things that I like and admire. I do digital photography myself. Certain people of my generation decided that the past was better than the present. I am not sure that that is true. I don’t want to be one of those people that says the world has come to an end.
Saul Leiter (3 December 1923 – 26 November 2013) was an American photographer and painter.
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