William Klein: Paris Klein

About this book

William Klein always dreamed of living in Paris like Henry Miller Gertrude Stein and other like-minded artists and writers. In 1948 stationed by the United States Army in Paris he stayed--and fled his family and America to become a painter. He quickly found another family and recognition for his talent. Today one is tempted like critic Anthony Lane to say that he is "the American in Paris." PARIS KLEIn gathers together hundreds of photographs shot by Klein from the time he first picked up a camera in the 1960s until he put it down momentarily to put together this book. In his signature color and black-and-white compositions jostled to the brim with more information than a single camera lens was ever expected to take in we find: men in the street celebrities demonstrations fashion the police politics races the m tro soccer death. . .The whole life of a capital seen through the lively acidic melancholic humorous irnoical and moving eyes of William Klein.