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William Klein
Has New York changed in the last forty years? Probably not as much as you would think, at least judging by the photographs of William Klein on show at the Galleria Carla Sozzani in Milan. Faces, expressions and places have remained the same from the fifties to the nineties, fashions have changed and above all the techniques, now more elaborate and painterly, with which Klein shows them but the substance, the contents appear unchanged.
Bringing together reportage and amateur photography, Klein creates a new way, natural and indiscreet of representing his city and its people, taken by surprise in a bar or outside a shop, at a party or playing in the street; girls, kids, businessmen, become the unconscious protagonists of real “non-portrait portraits”, natural poses that seem instead to have been carefully studied.
In this simplicity lies Klein’s revolutionary idea, an artist’s touch and the eye of the amateur, along with its errors: out of focus, distorted, cropped faces. Influenced by the Avant-garde, he also became a fashion photographer, to which the Gallery dedicates a separate section, painter and director, working as assistant to Fellini and as a graphic designer with various international magazines, including Domus.
