His modern portraiture model strongly influenced vogue and avenue images.
William Klein, an American photographer whose modern portraiture model strongly influenced vogue and avenue images within the second half of the twentieth century, has died at 96.
Klein died Saturday in Paris, his son, Pierre Klein, stated in an announcement Monday.
Born in New York Metropolis in 1926 to Hungarian Jewish dad and mom, Klein grew up in Manhattan and studied sociology on the Metropolis School of New York. After serving in Europe with the U.S. Military throughout World Warfare II, he moved to Paris to review portray underneath the G.I. Invoice.
Klein met and married Jeanne Florin, a mannequin and painter, quickly after his arrival in Paris. The couple lived collectively in France till her demise in 2005.
Klein, who studied briefly with French painters Andre Lhote and Fernand Leger, had his first solo exhibition of work in Brussels in 1951, and one other in Milan a 12 months later. In 1954, he turned his consideration to images after assembly Alexander Liberman, the inventive director at Vogue, and commenced a 10-year collaboration with the journal.
Throughout the identical interval, he created a ground-breaking photographic diary of his native New York, titled Life is Good & Good For You in New York. The e-book featured Klein’s unconventional use of extensive angles, contrasts in composition and weird framing, which got here to outline the still-nascent style of avenue images.
The e-book was printed in Paris, London and Rome in 1956 and gained the Nadar Prize the next 12 months.
He printed different photograph diaries of different cities, Rome in 1959, Moscow and Tokyo in 1964, and Paris in 2002.
He was additionally a famous filmmaker, producing a number of documentary and have movies all through his profession, addressing subjects like the style trade, the conflict in Vietnam and famed boxer Muhammed Ali.
Klein first ventured into cinema in 1956, when Italian director Federico Fellini, impressed by Klein’s uncooked photographs of New York Metropolis avenue life, had requested him to work on his 1957 movie Nights of Cabiria, a couple of prostitute in Rome.