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Mr. Klein’s most reproduced image from the book, known as “Gun 1,” shows a young boy with a clenched, angry expression pointing a gun at the photographer, just inches from the lens.

William Klein, Candy Store, Amsterdam Avenue, New York, 1955. (Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery) One of photography’s secret powers is to turn time inside out. It takes a constellation of ...

American photographer, William Klein, ... Gun 1, New York, 1954: Klein, who grew up in Manhattan, was commissioned by Vogue to produce a book of photography focusing on the city.

William Klein, one of his ... It is a grainy black-and-white photograph, staged circa 1954, titled "Gun 1, New York.” Visual artist William Klein called it a self-portrait. He was both boys, he ...

Gun 1, New York. WILLIAM KLEIN, COURTESY OF POLKA GALERIE Disgust with consumerism. While Cartier-Bresson pursued compositional balance, geometric rigor and poetry – a suspended moment of grace ...

US photographer William Klein takes pictures during an exposition named "William Klein Rome photos - 1956/1960 ", in the Rome's Trajan Market on April 13, 2010. Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images ...

Photographer, filmmaker, painter and graphic designer William Klein at a press event in Paris in 2005. Klein died Saturday at age 96. Pierre Verdy/AFP via Getty Images hide caption ...

Klein was born in New York City in 1926, and lived there until the age of 20, when he was sent to Europe by the US Army to help with reconstruction efforts following World War II. He obtained his ...

William Klein, an American photographer whose innovative portraiture style strongly influenced fashion and street photography in the second half of the 20th century, has died. He was 96 years old.