Until October 2, the Charles Nègre Museum of Photography is presenting an exhibition dedicated to the work of William Klein.
Born in 1928 in New York, William Klein has been pursuing a career in France since 1947 as a photographer, painter, and filmmaker.
For this exhibition, specifically designed for the space of the Charles Nègre Museum of Photography, three themes have been chosen:
Nice, particularly the Carnival and the flower battles, a rarely shown color series created in 1984 on the centenary of this emblematic festival of our city;
Moscow, a book published in 1964 (with images taken between 1959 and 1961) paints a portrait of this city and its population. “I intended to make a book on Moscow,” he says, “and I thought that as an American during the Cold War, I would have problems. I was wrong, I never had a problem. People were not used to seeing someone with a camera wandering among them.” The result is these images of a bygone world where light briefly sneaks in to highlight the appealing features of a face glimpsed in the corridors of a train station or under the foliage of a park;
Tokyo 1961, with photos published in 1964. Images that reflect the artist’s encounter with urban disorder or the violence of the avant-garde artistic movements. Between large-format black-and-white prints and painted contacts, this series bears witness to the photographer’s striking vision and genius, which have made him recognized as one of the most emblematic figures on the international art scene.
