The mural celebrating midcentury American life was the perfect scenic backdrop for a presentation by Delvaux at Paris Fashion Week. Saul Steinberg, The Americans - Main street - Small town (1958).

Saul Leiter (1923-2013) never sought to conquer the world. In fact, he spent most of his life in an apartment in the East Village in New York. He enjoyed staying at home, painting and drinking coffee.

During Paris Fashion Week, almost every color could be spotted on the streets and the runways. As people rush to shows, a photographer sometimes has only a moment — but that was all I needed to ...

Mr. Leiter was photographed in 2008 at his exhibit in Paris. ... Saul Leiter was born in Pittsburgh on Dec. 3, 1923, a scion of a dynastic rabbinic family that stretched back hundreds of years.