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About the American photographer, William KLEIN (*1928 in New York)
William KLEIN in the 1950s and 60s he published a series of books on great cities: New York, Rome, Moscow, Tokyo and finally Paris, where he has lived since 1948. At the end of the 1940s he came to Paris for the first time, a little later he joined the studio of André Lhote (like Henri CARTIER-BRESSON). Until 1965 he worked as a fashion photographer for 'Vogue'. His fashion photographs 'revolutionized' the genre, an air of scandal surrounded his work at the time. With his work he influenced the photographers Helmut NEWTON, Frank HORVAT, David BAILEY and Jeanloup SIEFF, who had become renowned in their own right.