![]() ![]() ![]() Assistant and friend Margit Erb (a producer here) comes in from time to time to keep him focused. We watch the now-old man dig through rooms full of work few people have ever seen, reminiscing about the (recently deceased) love of his life and delivering the occasional bit of wisdom like, “the important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.” He sometimes hesitates mid-utterance, as if unsure how seriously he wants to take this whole documentary thing: Speaking of nudes he shot of one woman, he says he “did some pictures of her that are slightly…they’re slightly…” before simply moving on to another photo. This, too: Grant Scott published a Q&A with the filmmaker in 2012 that’s worth a peek. I haven’t seen the film since 2014 and plan to watch it during my winter break. ![]() ![]() (Cue great shots of art-world types ranging from John Cage to Andy Warhol.) But here and in discussing his boyhood (Mom bought him his first camera Dad was an overserious Talmudic scholar), the recollections are more piecemeal than comprehensive. I mentioned this before make some time to watch In No Great Hurry: 13 Lessons in Life with Saul Leiter, Tomas Leach’s remarkable documentary about Leiter’s life and work. “A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person,” Leiter declares, recalling a New York City youth that found him rubbing elbows with the legends of Abstract Expressionism. ![]()
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