William Klein, 1928 - 2022

 William Klein died 10 September 2022

William Klein, St Patrick’s Day, Fifth Avenue, 1954-5

I would look at my contact sheets and my heart would be beating, you know. To see if I’d caught what I wanted. Sometimes, I’d take shots without aiming, just to see what happened, I’d rush into crowds – bang! bang! I liked the idea of luck and taking a chance. Other times I’d frame a composition I saw and plant myself somewhere, longing for some accident to happen.
Klein, William (1981) Photographs: An Aperture Monograph, New York: Aperture, p16

William Klein, Crowd, Broadway and 103rd Street, NY, 1954-5

William Klein, Antonia Simone Barbershop, New York, 1961

William Klein, Candy Store, 1955

William Klein, Dance in Brooklyn, 1955

William Klein, Club Allegro Fortissimo, Paris, 1989

William Klein, Installation view of graphic work for book covers, film posters and magazines, 1952-2005, Tate Modern, 2012