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| william klein / paris at the same time, two exhibitions of william klein will be organised. maison européenne de la photographie, paris april 23 to june 8, 2002 http://www.mep-fr.org palazzo delle esposizioni, rome 23 april - 01 july, 2002 http://www.palaexpo.com william klein, once considered photography's bad boy, is one of the formative voices of street photography from the 1950s and '60s. his work has been called chaotic, disorganized, threatening and abrasive, while it is also explosive, evocative and playful. william klein grew up on the 'mean streets ' of manhattan. his highly unconventional creativity which, via the elaboration of a style that went against the grain of contemporary models, gradually imposed itself as an essential point of reference in the world of photography. today, william klein is working on the subject of paris, mainly in colour. for more than a year he has been illustrating his personal vision of the city, a vision that is different from everything that has been published until now : a multi-ethnic paris a far cry from romantic, misty sentimentality. the new william klein exhibition on paris is the latest masterpiece in a totally original photographic and cinematographic life's work. klein, who has lived in paris for more than forty years, has always confronted big subjects and themes, with just the necessary distance and humour to achieve a critical view of the world at large. he seeks neither to illustrate nor to comment upon paris, but to grasp it in its entirety. graphic tableaus, as well as more recent oversized painted photo contacts, line the walls. see ----
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