Great black and white photographers, PART 2

William Klein Biograhpy:

• Born in New York City in 1928
• He was born into a family with poor jewish immigrants
• At a young age he experience the views of anti-semitism because he grew up in mostly an irish neighborhood, and he was jewish.
• He enrolled at the city College of New York to study sociology.
• He even was in the US army as a radio operator.
• Klein spent multiple years in both Paris and Milan, gathering influences from the culture for photographs.
• Since he was originally a painter, most of his photographs are either blurred or out of focus.
• He published "Rome" in 1960, "Moscow" in 1964, and "Tokyo" in 1964 these all being photobooks.
• An interesting thing I found about Klein is that he used to be a fashion photographer for Vogue and would usually photograph his models outside or on the streets.
• Klein isn't the traditional photographer and instead challenges society with his photos. Most of his photos concern dark humor, social criticism, and satire.