A sheet of contacts. William Klein

[alfredo]

Very good video by William Klein.

[Stevenmarc]

1. Thanks for sharing!

It's always enlightening to see an artists process, his intent. It was also interesting to be brought back to a time of 36 well thought out exposures in a time where people shoot hundreds of exposures in a, some of it has to stick to the wall, style.

I also found Mr. Klein's affinity with surrealism interesting with his mention of "ready-made's" a direct reference to Duchamp and certainly illustrated with his costume party shots, the refocused prints and the shots of Butoh performers in Japan.

[alfredo]

2. Sometimes you have to wait for the photo, but not too long.

He goes out with a theme in mind. He doesn't mind breaking the rules.

[Stevenmarc]

3. And sometimes you make them.

His fashion work absolutely broke the mold especially when he would place models in active public spaces.

He had a retrospective of his work recently at the Howard Greenberg Gallery that I'm really glad I got to see and certainly illustrated his rule breaking talent.

[alfredo]

4. Like shooting portraits in landscape format.