![]() ![]() ![]() In one episode, Carol meets Therese for lunch for the first time. ![]() Leiter often captured refracted images through windows or in mirrors similarly, Haynes filmed scenes through car or shop windows to create a sense of dreaming and distortion. The film tells of the love affair between the beautiful Carol and the Hepburn-like Therese, played by Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara. 'That muted colour palette spoke very specifically of the 1950s, which was well before the shiny, cleaned up, chrome-y period of the Eisenhower era,' says Haynes. In the upcoming film Carol, adapted from Patricia Highsmith's 1952 novel The Price of Salt, the director Todd Haynes used Leiter's photographs as a visual starting point. Roaming the streets of New York, Leiter was one of the first photographers to capture the city regularly in colour, showing us rain-washed cars and passers-by through a contemplative lens, while also shooting for Harper's Bazaar from 1958 to 1967. Though he is less known than his contemporaries Richard Avedon and Diane Arbus, his aesthetic – glancing, intimate observations in subdued colour – has seeped into the vernacular of modern film-making. ![]() Over the next few months, the quiet photographs of the late Saul Leiter will enjoy renewed attention. ![]()
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