“I spent a great deal of my life being ignored. A total eclipse that had him completely out of the view of the public.

By this point, Saul Leiter had fallen into eclipse. One of the few who did was his former art director at Harper’s Bazaar, Henry Wolf, who wanted to publish a selection of them as a book in the 1970’s. Why are these then in black & white? The best theory I’ve heard is that he was able to develop and print them in his home darkroom, and could, therefore, keep them private. Perhaps the first thing that’s interesting about them is they’re in black & white, though he worked exclusively in color during most of that period. Saul Leiter took thousands of nude Photographs of his friends and lovers between about 1947 through the early 1970s.

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*-from 'Deacon Blues' by Steely Dan's Donald Fagen & Walter Becker, published by Universal Music Publishing Group Search NighthawkNYC Here- Search for: Recent Posts And, be sure to subscribe so you don't miss out on anything you'll wake up tomorrow and wish you hadn't. 'Sensations that stagger the mind.'*īut? I'm not going to stop there, so hold on to your stool, and let's see what the night brings. I started NighthawkNYC to share what I've discovered along the way- as Steely Dan put it so well. Anyway.Art and Music are my twin passions, and have been for a very long time. I named this site NighthawkNYC in homage to Hopper’s immortal Painting, and that figure that no one ever talks about. As much as any work of Art I've ever seen is.

Well, that figure, sitting with his back to us is. I felt like I was standing next to my soul. Here, I’m standing in front of the REAL Nighthawks, Edward Hopper's Timeless Masterpiece from 1942, at the 'old' Whitney Museum during the Hopper Drawing Show in 2013. Welcome to my site. Here I am as you'll find me most times- out somewhere in NYC, listening to Music and looking at Art. Good evening! I'm Kenn Sava, the Denizen of.

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