William Klein - Photographer

[Multitudes]

Candy Store, New York, 1954

Atom Bomb Sky, New York, 1955

Big face, Big Buttons, New York, 1955

Boy Gun Striped Dress, new York, 1955

Same source

 

[Multitudes]

Pray Sin, New York, 1954

Buicks, 2 tiered, New York, 1955

Elsa Maxwell's Toy Ball At The Waldorf, New York, 1955

Dance In Brooklyn, New York, 1955

Same source

 

[Multitudes]

We continue here ...

Big Face, Front Of Macy's, New York, 1954

Macy's Parade, Martian, Ny, 1954

2 Grainy Profiles, New York, 1955

3 Girls Laughing And Tongues, New York, 1955

Same source

 

[Multitudes]

5th Avenue, New York, 1955

Black Canyon, Wall Street, New York, 1955

Boys See Saw, Harlem, New York, 1955

Christmas Shoppers, New York, 1955

Same source

 

[Multitudes]

ICP gives William Klein the Lifetime Achievement Award! The ceremony for ICP's 23rd Annual Infinity Awards for Excellence in Photography is on Monday, May 14. It will take place at Pier Sixty, Chelsea Piers, New York. ...

W I L L I A M K L E I N L I F E T I M E A C H I E V E M E N T

William Klein is a native New Yorker who has lived in Paris since 1948. As a photographer and filmmaker, Klein has influenced visual media in the U.S. and Europe for the better part of a century. During the 1950s and 1960s, he pioneered a new kind of street photography: to represent the fragmented urban chaos that was his subject, he produced work that was grainy, blurry, and distorted via wide-angle lenses, fast film, and unique framing and printing. His first book, Life is Good and Good for You in New York: Trance Witness Revels (1956) is widely considered to be one of the most important photography books ever published. Klein's many films, including Broadway by Light (1958), the first Pop film; Who are you Polly Maggoo? (1965-66), Muhammad Ali the Greatest (1969-74), and The Messiah (2000), comprise another important body of work for the artist, as does his fashion photography for Vogue and currently Harper's Bazaar.

Source: icp.org

 

[Multitudes]

Boy Girl Swing, New York, 1955

Crowd And Cigar And Sunflower, Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, 1955

Dance At The Waldorf, New York, 1955

Dance In Brooklyn, New York, 1955

Howard Greenberg Gallery

 

[Multitudes]

Film Strips, Broadway By Light, 1955

Gun 1, New York, 1955

I Need, New York, 1955

Love, New York, 1955

Same source

 

[Multitudes]

Man Under El, New York, 1955

Office Girls Outting, New York, 1955

Puerto Rican Girl From Above, New York, 1955

Silver Fox In Gourmet Corner, 5 10, New York, 1955

Same source

 

[Gloria01]

I love him!

I'm seeing his film tonight:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLJx2vJdlJQ

 

[auxt]

I just watched this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8x40g8bPyg

 

[auxt]

Three of his films have been recently released as a DVD set from the good people at Criterion

http://www.criterion.com/asp/boxed_set.asp?id=2000900

Eclipse Series 9:
The Delirious Fictions of William Klein
William Klein

Film Info | Reviews

William Klein's explosive New York street photography made him one of the most heralded artists of the sixties. An American expatriate in Paris, Klein has also been making challenging cinema for more than forty years, yet with the exception of his acclaimed documentary Muhammad Ali, the Greatest, his film work is barely known in the United States. In his three fiction features—Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, Mr. Freedom, and The Model Couple—he skewers the fashion industry, American imperialism, and governmental mind control with hilarious, cutting aplomb. Today Klein's politically galvanizing social critiques seem even more acute than the works of the more famous New Wavers. These are colorful, surreal antidotes to all forms of social oppression.

 

[Neyasnii Shepot]

2 covers for Vogue Paris

1 - 1961 April
2 - 1965 April Elizabeth Taylor



my scans from "Vogue Paris Covers 1920-2009"

 

[VogueGirl8910]

UK Vogue May 1963: Jean Shrimpton by William Klein


vogue.co.uk

 

[VogueGirl8910]

UK Vogue April 1st, 1965
Models: Brigitte Bauer & Unknown
Photographer: William Klein
Hair: Alexandre


ciaovogue.com

 

[VogueGirl8910]

UK Vogue April 15th, 1965
"Balenciaga & Givenchy, St. Laurent"
Models: Unknown
Photographer: William Klein
Hair: Alexandre


ciaovogue.com

 

[VogueGirl8910]

UK Vogue April 15th, 1966
"The Great White Way by Givenchy"
Model: Unknown
Photographer: William Klein


ciaovogue.blogspot.com

 

[justaguy]

Vogue Paris February 1961

Photo William Klein
Model Unknown


paperpursuits.com

 

[CholoChic]

beautiful thread,
could someone tell me if some of them are familiy of William Klein:
Calvin Klein (Designer), Steven Klein (photographer), Kelly Klein (photographer)
or is it just a coincidence?

 

[VogueGirl8910]

US Vogue November 1st, 1968
"Ski Lively"
Models: Jill Kennington & Unknown
Photographer: William Klein


Scanned by Freya @ ciaovogue.blogspot.com

 

[Ethel]

US Vogue, 'Paris Fashion Report', 1 September 1958. 22 pages of the most amazing work - in this shot he's using a double exposure. Can anyone name the model?

Source: Digital Edition, US Vogue, 1 Sept. 1958