New York 1954.55

By Klein, William

Publishers Summary:
William Klein is recognized as one of the masters of photography, using a graphic "anti-technique". This collection features some of his work in New York during the period 1954-1955, his grainy images commenting upon the city's gritty postwar vitality.

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ISBN
978-1-89923-525-4
Publisher
Dewi Lewis Publishing


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Reviewed on April 15, 1996

In 1954 Klein returned to the city of his youth after living the life of a painter in Paris since the end of World War II. Vogue art director Alexander Liberman had agreed to pay him to photograph the city for a few months, though he was almost totally lacking in knowledge of or experience with a camera. The result was a collection of exuberant, cinematic images of the city's people and neighborhoods-by Klein's own description "pseudo-ethnog...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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