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He continued to work as a fashion photographer through the 1970s, contributing to such publications as in Show, Elle, British Vogue, Queen, and Nova.

However, over the next four decades, Leiter's noncommercial work remained virtually unknown to the wider art world. Edward Steichen included twenty-three of Leiter's black and white photographs in the seminal 1953 exhibition "Always the Young Stranger" at the Museum of Modern Art he also included twenty of Leiter's color images in the 1957 MoMA conference "Experimental Photography in Color." In the late 1950s, the art director Henry Wolf published Leiter's color fashion work in Esquire and later in Harper's Bazaar. Leiter's first exhibition of color photography was held in the 1950s at the Artist's Club, a meeting place for many of the Abstract Expressionist painters of that time. His distinctively subdued color often has a painterly quality that stood out among the work of his contemporaries. By the 1950s, he began to work in color as well, compiling an extensive and significant body of work during the medium's infancy. Leiter's earliest black and white photographs show an extraordinary affinity for the medium. Eugene Smith, expanded his interest in photography. His friendship with Pousette-Dart and soon after, with W. In New York, he befriended the Abstract Expressionist painter Richard Pousette-Dart, who was experimenting with photography. Leiter's interest in art began in his late teens, and though he was encouraged to become a Rabbi like his father, he left theology school and moved to New York to pursue painting at age 23. Saul Leiter (1923-2013) was born in Pittsburgh, the son of an internationally renowned Talmudic scholar.