I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I h… - Saul Leiter

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I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I have a great regard for certain notions of beauty even though to some it is an old fashioned idea. Some photographers think that by taking pictures of human misery, they are addressing a serious problem. I do not think that misery is more profound than happiness.

Saul Leiter

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Saul Leiter (3 December 1923 – 26 November 2013) was an American photographer and painter.

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I really don’t think I was influenced by anyone. I think I will leave it up to someone else to determine who influenced me. I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.

I never felt the need to do what everyone else did. And I wasn’t troubled by the fact that other people were doing other things.

I didn’t photograph people as an example of New York urban something or other. I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera. I look into the camera and take pictures. My photographs are the tiniest part of what I see that could be photographed. They are fragments of endless possibilities.

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