Painter, photographer, filmmaker and graphic artist William Klein doesn’t fit into the usual clichés, categories and currents. Klein breaks with tradition and establishes his own violent graphic style blending dark humour, social criticism, satire and poetry.
He clearly rejects the obsession with the objective eye and overturns the relationship between photographer and subject, steering his course between amateur photography, photojournalism and posed photographs. Klein uses ultra-rapid film with unusual framing and printing methods to free the 35 mm format from all its limitations and transform irregularities, grain, contrast, deformation and abstraction into a new visual vocabulary.
Painter, photographer, filmmaker and graphic artist William Klein doesn’t fit into the usual clichés, categories and currents. Klein breaks with tradition and establishes his own violent graphic style blending dark humour, social criticism, satire and poetry.
He clearly rejects the obsession with the objective eye and overturns the relationship between photographer and subject, steering his course between amateur photography, photojournalism and posed photographs. Klein uses ultra-rapid film with unusual framing and printing methods to free the 35 mm format from all its limitations and transform irregularities, grain, contrast, deformation and abstraction into a new visual vocabulary.