Galería / William Klein: «Mirror»

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Mirror

 Times Square (Vogue) 

1962

 Gelatin Silver Print 

William Klein was born in 1928 and became famous in Europe immediately upon publication of his strikingly intense book of photographs, Life Is Good for You in New York - William Klein Trance Witness Revels. Klein's visual language made an asset out of accident, graininess, blur, and distortion. Klein employed a wide-angle lens, fast film, and novel framing and printing procedures to make images in a fragmented, anarchic mode that emphasized raw immediacy and highlighted the photographer's presence in the scene. He worked in direct opposition to the model of elegance and discretion he saw in the images of Henri Cartier-Bresson. From 1955 to 1965, Klein produced bizarrely original fashion photography for Vogue and other publications. His employer at Vogue, wrote, "In the fashion pictures of the fifties, nothing like Klein had happened before. He went to extremes, which took a combination of great ego and courage. He pioneered the telephoto and wide-angle lenses, giving us a new perspective.” Klein has exhibited throughout the world. An exhibition of his early work was held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1980-1981, at which time John Szarkowski wrote: "Klein's photographs of twenty years ago were perhaps the most uncompromising of their time. They were the boldest and superficially the most scrofulous - the most distanced from the accepted standards of formal quality .... They really extend what life can look like in pictures. They enlarge the vocabulary."


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