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William Klein, Antonia Simone Barbershop, New York, 1961
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A great photographer; a great artist.
Some work is on show at Someret House as part of the Sony World Photography Awards exhibition until 20 May. More excitingly he will be the subject of joint retrospective with Daido Moriyama at Tate Modern in October. The pairing seems a good one, but Klein's comment to Sean O'Hagan was "I think it's kind of stupid". Read the full article
here.
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would look at my contact sheets and my heart would be beating, you know. To see
if I’d caught what I wanted. Sometimes, I’d take shots without aiming, just to
see what happened, I’d rush into crowds – bang! bang! I liked the idea of luck
and taking a chance. Other times I’d frame a composition I saw and plant myself
somewhere, longing for some accident to happen.
Klein,
William (1981) Photographs:
An Aperture Monograph, New York: Aperture, p16
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Klein, St Patrick’s Day, Fifth Avenue, 1954-5 |
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Klein, Club Allegro Fortissimo, Paris, 1989 |
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Klein, Candy Store, 1955 |
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Klein, Bikini, Moscow, 1959 |
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Klein, Selwyn, 42nd Street, New York, 1955 |
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Klein, Dance Happening, Tokyo, 1961 |
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Klein, Crowd, Broadway and 103rd Street, NY, 1954-5 |
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