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“Postmen”, 1952, New York. ©Saul Leiter
Until March 4, Amsterdam’s Jewish Historical Museum is presenting a restrospective exhibition of the American photographer and painter Saul Leiter (1923). He was virtually the first to make non-commercial color photographs of the streets of New York, and was being criticized for it back then. Now, he is celebrated for having portrayed the everyday streetlife of New York in the 1940s, 50s and 60s in a spontaneous way, and in color photograps.