Henry Wolf, art director at Esquire, publishes Leiter’s fashion photographs.ġ958 Begins to photograph for Harper’s Bazaar when Henry Wolf becomes art director. Exhibits color work at Samuel Kootz Gallery, New York.ġ956 Solo exhibition (watercolors and color slides) at Tanager Gallery, New York.ġ957 Steichen includes twenty of Leiter’s color photographs in his slide talk “Experimental Photography in Color” at the Museum of Modern Art.

Exhibits drawings in a group show at Tanager.ġ953 Black-and-white photographs are included in Always the Young Strangers at the Museum of Modern Art and in Contemporary Photography at the Tokyo Museum.ġ955 Gives slide talk about his color work at the Club, an East Village art space. Cooperative Tanager Gallery is founded Leiter works in studio behind gallery. More work is featured in Life’s November 26 issue (“Shoes of the Shoeshine Men”).ġ952 Moves to New York City’s East Village. Works primarily with three cameras, Argosy C3, Auto Graflex Junior, and early Rolleiflex.ġ951 Life publishes Leiter’s black-and-white series The Wedding as a Funeral, September 3 issue. Paintings exhibited at Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio.ġ948 (circa) Begins working with color slide film, including Kodachrome and Anscochrome. Eugene Smith, who gives him Alexey Brodovitch’s book Ballet. One of Leiter’s paintings is included in Abstract and Surrealist American Art at the Art Institute of Chicago. Befriends Abstract Expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart, who encourages Leiter to take photographs.ġ947 Attends Henri Cartier-Bresson’s exhibition at Museum of Modern Art. Resides on Perry Street, Greenwich Village (c. Begins photographing sporadically.ġ940s Ektachrome color film for 35mm cameras is debuted.ġ941 Enrolls at University of Pittsburgh and attends classes for one semester.ġ942 (circa) Attends Telshe Yeshiva Rabbinical College, Cleveland.ġ945 Paintings exhibited at Ten-Thirty Gallery, Cleveland Outlines Gallery, Pittsburgh Gump’s department store, San Francisco and Arts and Crafts Center, Pittsburgh.ġ946 Paintings exhibited in New Year Show at Butler Art Institute, Ohio.

Parents are Wolf Leiter (born Poland) and Regina née Goldberg (born Austria).ġ936 Kodachrome color film for 35mm cameras is debuted.ġ937 (circa) Anscochrome color film for 35mm cameras is debuted.ġ938 Attends Talmudic Academy in New York City.ġ939 (circa) Given Detrola camera by his mother.

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