Legendary photographer / artist William Klein has died at the age of 96.
American-born Klein died Sept. 10 in Paris, he had lived there for most of his adult life. The ICP’s managing director of programming David Campany, who curated the retrospective of Klein’s work that is on view at the ICP in New York , confirmed his death on Monday.
Klein once said of his own work, “I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn’t interest me. There were things you could do with a camera that you couldn’t do with any other medium — grain, contrast, blur, cock-eyed framing, eliminating or exaggerating gray tones and so on. I thought it would be good to show what’s possible, to say that this is as valid of a way of using the camera as conventional approaches.”
William Klein was and always will be an inspiration to me and many others. We mourn the passing of of a great human being.
Check him out whenever you can……