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William Klein

  • Pop art forerunner … a detail from Klein’s Independence Day Parade, Dakar, 1963.

    ‘High octane visions’: the blurred, distorted genius of photographer William Klein

    He captured the energy of New York’s streets, revolutionised fashion photography, then made savage, censored films about the west. His scope, imagination and influence were simply immense
  • William Klein, Auto-Portrait, 1993.

    ‘Wildly inventive’: the many faces of William Klein – in pictures

    The multifaceted artist worked in photography, film and paint – a new retrospective explores his pioneering work around the globe from Harlem to Dakar
  • William Klein’s Shoes Polisher, Rocky II, etc, Piccadilly.

    Anatomy of an artwork
    William Klein’s Shoes Polisher … urban codes and libidinal currents

    Ahead of his time in bringing street photography to the mainstream, Klein captures the male energy of the 1980s
  • Study of boy and plant 1999

    Vintage clouds and swimsuit crowds: Photo London 2018 – in pictures

    This year’s international photography fair is a riot of phosphorescent vegetation, fashion masterworks and eye-catching portraiture
  • Dorothy and White Light Stripes

    Fashionably lit: William Klein's Vogue experiments – in pictures

    William Klein used double exposures and painting with light to create this witty, striking and influential 1962 Vogue photoshoot
  • New York by William Klein  Book CoverAll images are © William Klein/Courtesy HackelBury Fine Art, Londonphil@hackelbury.co.ukArt BooksMoves + Pepsi, Harlem, 1955

    William Klein: 'My pictures showed everything I resented about America'

    A resident of Paris for 60 years, Klein’s photographs of 1950s New York caught the city’s energy and grit and made his name. He talks about returning to Brooklyn, working for Vogue – and being praised by Picasso
  • Barbara Mullen in Le Pavillon restaurant in New York, 1950

    Where is she now? Barbara Mullen, the misfit model of the 1950s

    A streetwise, 'foul-mouthed' New Yorker, Barbara Mullen didn't fit the idea of 1950s glamour, but Lillian Bassman and Richard Avedon still loved to photograph her. John-Michael O'Sullivan tracks down the model who broke the mould - and finds a story of heartbreak and high society

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    Klein and Moriyama at London's Tate Modern – reviews roundup

    The Observer's deputy picture editor roundsup reviews of Tate Modern's retrospectives of photographer and film-maker William Klein and Japanese photographer Daido Moriyama

  • Klein Candy store

    William Klein + Daido Moriyama – review

    From the jazz energy of Klein's New York to the edgy shadows of Moriyama's Tokyo, Tate Modern pairs two great urban photographers, writes Sean O'Hagan
  • Séneque Obin's Toussaint Louverture

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    Frieze, funfair photography and Haiti's story – the week in art

    The Regent's Park spectacular has kicked off, plus Kafou in Nottingham, shooting gallery snaps and robots that draw – all in today's weekly art dispatch

  • Bikini, Moscow, 1959 by William Klein

    New York meets Tokyo: William Klein and Daido Moriyama at Tate Modern – in pictures

    This exhibition at Tate Modern explores modern urban life in New York and Tokyo through William Klein, one of the 20th century's most important photographers and filmmakers, and Daido Moriyama, the most celebrated photographer to emerge from the Japanese Provoke movement

  • Antonia Simone, Barbershop New York 1961

    William Klein - in pictures

    The photographer and film-maker – one of the great postwar iconoclasts – has three exhibitions opening in the UK this year

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    William Klein: 'I was an outsider, following my instincts'

    The great photographer, film-maker and iconoclast talks to Sean O'Hagan about a life spent in pursuit of his personal vision
  • The big picture
    The big picture: Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? 1966

    William Klein's first movie, a gleeful satire on the fashion industry, underlined his reputation as a brilliant, iconoclastic photographer, writes Sean O'Hagan
  • William Klein's Montage of the Royal Wedding

    My best shot
    Photographer William Klein's best shot

    William Klein: ‘I wanted to capture the royal wedding’s atmosphere of togetherness. The English are very exotic to me – they sing’
  • The angry icon

    William Klein is an artist held in huge esteem for his pioneering photography, film-making and artworks. But he has never courted fame, and sometimes it rankles that he hasn't had more of it. Alix Sharkey sounds out an American in Paris
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