William Klein - Photofile communication & design and colourful

and colourful

and within a few years swelled to over 500 across the world

A pure artistic practice that he considers autonomous from the profession for which he is internationally recognized

inviting us to take a discrimination-wary view

the black sand beach at Vík

William Klein - Photofile communication & design and colourfulWilliam Klein (born 1928) has always moved against the current. A painter, filmmaker, graphic designer and fashion photographer, Klein grew up in New York but has been based in Paris since 1948. His shots are often intense and immediate, disrupting the established order of things and capturing fragmented snatches of distortion and movement. Although best known for his images of New York in the 1950s, he has also worked in other urban environments,