William Klein, the American-French artist responsible for transforming the worlds of fashion photography, street photography and cinema verité, has died in Paris aged 96
A few months after arriving in the city, Klein was cycling to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts when he saw a girl walking along the pavement. ‘I’d never seen anyone so beautiful,’ he said. He stopped to ask her directions and then asked what she was doing that evening. Soon after, Klein married Jeanne Florin. The pair remained together until her death in 2005, living in a book-filled apartment overlooking the Jardin du Luxembourg. He called their relationship ‘the love affair of the century’.
, film and photography. Léger, who is now considered an early forerunner of Pop Art, pushed Klein to push beyond an easel. Klein started to experiment with a saturated form of monochrome photography and processing techniques in a dark room.‘I was a primitive, and the photographs I was taking for myself were at the level of zero in terms of the evolution of photography’, Klein said of these early experiments.
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