"Paris + Klein" 2002 KLEIN, William (INSCRIBED)

"Paris + Klein" 2002 KLEIN, William (INSCRIBED)KLEIN, William Inscribed on title page: To Nora [333] pp. DAP Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. 2002 13 5 8" x 10 1 4" 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

KLEIN, William

Inscribed on title page: To Nora

[333] pp.

DAP/ Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.

2002

13 5/8" x 10 1/4"

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 metro, soccer, death. . .The whole life of a capital seen through the lively, acidic, melancholic, humorous, ironical, and moving eyes of William Klein.