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william klein / fashion photography since the beginning of fashion photography around the year 1900, the imagination of the photographer has attempted to transform the model and the garment into something artful: more than just a photograph showing a woman wearing a dress. by injection fantasy through the use of hair styles and make-up, and experiments in composition. the photographs span klein's entire career up to the present, with particular emphasis on his fashion photography, surreal images which have influenced generations of fashion photographers. his innovations have not only been technological, but also philosophical: he encouraged his models to 'act' rather than just to 'pose', and his 'street esthetics' opened up a new dimension in fashion photography. klein also had his fashion contract with vogue. he lacked studio experience, so preferred to take his models out into the street or on location. he posed his models in a group of mannequins, crossing busy streets, surrounded by a crowd whose faces he painted out as blank masks. and he often said he had little or no interest in the clothes... see ---- william klein / paris william klein / new york william klein / biography william klein / fashion photgraphy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- ------- monthly designboom newsletter ------- ------- ? comments and contact us ? -------	piazza di spagna (rome),1960 © william klein courtesy galleria carla sozzani, milan smoke (paris), 1958 © william klein courtesy galleria carla sozzani, milan b.barzini (paris), 1962 © william klein courtesy galleria carla sozzani, milan simone daillencourt, 1962 © william klein courtesy galleria carla sozzani, milan isabella+white-faces+-opera, 1962 © william klein courtesy galleria carla sozzani, milan