However, this was only widely acknowledged by the public after the 2000s, some 60 years after he first started photography using a 35mm Leica camera. Documentary Screening of In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter. The photographer is deemed the “pioneering figure in color photography” as he began taking pictures in color from the 1940s, a time when such photography had many limits in terms of technology and technique. The retrospective is being held at Piknic art gallery, located in Jung District, central Seoul. “Saul Leiter: Through the Blurry Window” reflects on Leiter’s work: black-and-white photos, color photos, color slides and watercolor paintings. The beauty of Leiter's photographs lies in his ability to capture the ulterior side of everyday occurrences or things. These photos were published in Life magazine in 1955. Instead, Leiter took pictures of the polisher’s shabby, worn-out shoes, depicting the irony of the situation. X Marks the Spot have worked on various outcomes that have crossed into public programming at Studio Voltaire, including: a radio programme, this blog, photography workshops, research and public events series.″Red Umbrella″ (1958) When taking a photograph of a man who polishes shoes for a living, most would focus on the customer’s shined shoes, but the late American photographer Saul Leiter (1923-2013) thought otherwise. We are taking on Spence's ideas, with our selves as subjects, and sharing with our present communities. Through Spence's approach to photography as a transformative process, documentation of her life with breast cancer, and education around alternative therapy and self education through radical sociology, Spence's work has pushed us to the limits of what we can involve ourselves in. Saul Leiter could have been lauded as the great the pioneer of color photography, but was never driven by the lure of success. This research does not stay on the page, or screen but has populated our daily lives and heightened our experience of the present. Taking the focus of Spence's work, on body image, health, and the representation of a life lived, in the most social political form possible. See a portfolio of Saul Leiter’s photography in The New Yorker. Initiated in December 2011 'X Marks The Spot' is a concerted period of research in conjunction with the Not Our Class and Jo Spence projects at Studio Voltaire, London - conducted by Ego Ahaiwe,Yula Burin,Emma Hedditch, Mystique Holloway, Zoe Holloway, Gina Nimbhard and Louise Shelley. Intimate and beautifully rendered, In No Great Hurry follows Saul as he deals with the triple burden of clearing a houseful of memories, becoming world-famous in his eighties, and fending off a pesky filmmaker.

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