His first exhibition of colour photography was at the Artist's Club in the 1950 (a meeting place for many Abstract Expressionist painters) while Edward Steichen had included Leiter's black and white images in Always the Young Stranger at MOMA, NY, in 1953. In the late 1950's Henry Woolf published Leiter's colour fashion images in Esquire and later in Harpers Bazaar. For the next 20 years he worked as a fashion photographer for Elle, British and French Vogue and Nova. However, Leiter seemed to almost drop out of public view sometime in the 60s, until 2006 when the process of being rediscovered started. In both his fashion and more personal work Leiter has made an enormous contribution in the area of colour photography. His distinctively subdued colour and abstracted forms often have a painterly quality that stand out among the work of his contemporaries.
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