
24 فیلم
2 سریال
1926-04-19, New York City, USA
2022-09-10
William Klein (April 19, 1926 – September 10, 2022) was a photographer and filmmaker noted to for his ironic approach to both media and his extensive use of unusual photographic techniques in the context of photojournalism and fashion photography. Trained as a painter, Klein studied under Fernand Léger and found early success with exhibitions of his work. However, he soon moved on to photography and achieved widespread fame as a fashion photographer for Vogue and for his photo essays on various cities. Despite having no training as a photographer, Klein won the Prix Nadar in 1957 for New York, a book of photographs taken during a brief return to his hometown in 1954. Klein's work was considered revolutionary for its "ambivalent and ironic approach to the world of fashion", its "uncompromising rejection of the then prevailing rules of photography" and for his extensive use of wide-angle and telephoto lenses, natural lighting and motion blur. Klein tends to be cited in photography books along with Robert Frank as among the fathers of street photography, one of those mixed compliments that classifies a man who is hard to classify. The world of fashion would become the subject for Klein's first feature film, Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, which, like his other two fiction features, Mr. Freedom and Le Couple Témoin, is a satire. Klein directed numerous short and feature-length documentaries and produced over 250 television commercials. Though American by birth, Klein lived and worked in France since his late teens. His work has sometimes been openly critical of American society and foreign policy; the film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum once wrote that Klein's 1968 satire Mr. Freedom was "conceivably the most anti-American movie ever made". Description above from the Wikipedia article William Klein, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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2025
Les Troubles de la Circul...

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2013
記録 / Movie In London, Dai...

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2000
Delphine Seyrig, portrait...

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1999
Messiah

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1998
In and Out of Fashion

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1997
Contacts: Sophie Calle

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1993
The King of Ads, Part 2

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1992
Babilée '91

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1989
Contacts

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1985
Victoires de la musique

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1985
Mode in France

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1982
The French
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1980
The Little Richard Story

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1978
May Days

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1977
The Model Couple
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1977
Hollywood, California: A ...

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1974
Muhammad Ali, the Greates...

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1970
Eldridge Cleaver, Black P...

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1969
Mr. Freedom

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1969
The Panafrican Festival i...