Actually, one of the things that delights me about Leiter, other than his photography, is his style of verbal communication and his lack of reverence for the photographic establishment.
I found the same attitude in my Jeanloup Sieff book from Taschen; written in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese it's a mix of the first two that gets me through the many pages of text. What defeats me in one language usually explains itself in the other, possibly offering a defence for the old idea of Esperanto. However, that aside, both photographers take a fairly wry view of the medium and all the peripherals that grew around it, from the pretentiousness of the salesmen to the exploitation of the "artists" in many cases.
Who would have imagined that such a humble, on the face of it, occupation could produce such interesting personalities! Perhaps, in fact, it was personality that took them into the business in the first place - of course, it must have been. Now, after their passing, many of them still provide pleasure. Not a lot of people can lay claim to that outwith the artistic community. Well, being dead, I suppose it's impossible for them... at least, on the level of the living.
Rob