50:10 "...the world is full of endless things and there are many beautiful things around us, and people have a way and a talent for not noticing it, because they're lazy and because they're spoiled and because they lack the imagination to see that what is around them is actually sometimes very beautiful."
Vince Aletti interrupted Saul exactly where he was telling how he started photographing, and tried to get out of him some formula to his greatness, when he was telling exactly how he did his great stuff and his inspirations
One of the audience members tried to get him to tell the rest of the story and when Saul said he didn't remember the Interviewer said "ok let's move on then". It was frustrating
I love his red socks.They stick out like the red colours in his photos like the umbrella photos! This is a very enjoyable interview, it's nice and casual between interviewer and interviewee.Nice to see that he didn't blow his own trumpet too much.
Jodi Renshaw I totally agree. I just wanted to hear Saul Leiter go on. But I think the host needs to keep Saul aligned to the program because of time restraint, maybe.
.'..the explanations of certain things are not the real reasons of (those) cerrtain things' - words to contemplate. Words from an unassuming, unselfconscious stoic monk and Artist. A rare interview - rarer person.Thank you Vince aletti.
I listen to a lot of interviews and they are almost always tedious AF. I have loved Saul's work for 14 some odd years but never expected him to be this utterly delightful and impish guy, full of wisdom, humor and fresh originality. I realize the pressure the interviewer was under but some of the things he said I just felt were humoring Saul, patronizing him. I think there was a balance between letting him wander down extended paths with great stories full of insight and bringing him back to center without the patronizing edge. I just know I could have happily listened to Saul prattle on till the sun set and rose again the next day. Wonderful man!
Great artist. I went to SVA so I was pleasantly surprised to see this, although working nine years later. I know he was an old man, and sometimes drifted off as he said he does. That said, I felt Vince was a little impatient with him, and not understanding of the age of the man and perhaps he does forget a lot. I think he was just very patronizing to him, and he seemed anxious to keep moving on, although he would laugh every now and then. If I was the interviewer, I would just let the man talk. I found him to be absolutely honest and fascinating. I love his work. What is
Such a shame that Saul passed before we had a proper chance to record more interviews and explore his thoughts. He was such an insightful and funny guy, not at all like the boring academics he was making fun of haha
So bummed I seen this so late but glad I watched it people like him make it easier to understand that this photography dream takes time and dedication to the right reasons.
I notice that included something red in several of his photographs, like a red umbrella. I think it was intentional that he had red socks on for this interview.
This interview was a disaster, at 32:38 he was literally about to tell us how he became a photographer, and then the guy just cuts him off?! ........ and then at 44:08 the interviewer wants to talk about another photographer? ...... and you've got Saul Leiter sitting right in front of you?! What a wasted opportunity.
...galleries decide what "you" are sometimes. "This is you, this is the real you. This stuff here, this is not YOU. What? you did it, you like doing it. That's OK, but it isn't the real you. I am telling you what the real you is. This is the real you right here. We have convinced the world what you are."
Notice the contrast between the dimwitted academic interviewer, imprisoned in his world of words and navel gazing, and the Artist who freely does what brings him joy, completely unaffected by the pathetic affectations and cerebral flatulence of academia.
Nice way to waste a one in a lifetime opportunity by asking these stupid forums questions, "you see 3D, but you convert to 3D in your brain and then think in 4D", "you try to get personal with a subject that is 20m away"... WTF, you go to a forum and it is exactly the same garbage being discussed.
Yes because she wasn't in the social circles of the art world. That's what that means. She didnt get discovered until well after she passed. Nobody knew if her work at all
Can't stand it when the interviewer attempts to be the centre of attention all the time. Once saw a documentary on the writer Edna St. Vincent Mallay and her sister an actress. Both feeding birds. The voice over said: When Edna feeds a bird, it's all about the bird. When the sister feeds a bird it's all about the sister. This is all about the interviewer.
Vince Aletti you should let some one capable of conversion to have a conversation. That would have being so much better. This failed video, please do not do it again.
