Paul Keegan

The quiet brilliance of street photographer Saul Leiter

The reticent, negligent grace of Leiter's tiny fugitive images of Manhattan are well served by this new Milton Keynes exhibition

‘Pull’, c.1960, by Saul Leiter. © Saul Leiter Foundation
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