Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

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"Black humor, absurdity, panic — these are my tools," the legendary William Klein describes his work. He is a photographer from God, once trained in painting, but never studied photography. He is called the godfather of street photography and an innovator in the field of fashion photography. His works are known for their irony and do not leave anyone indifferent.

Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

In an attempt to analyze the legacy of the legendary master, the most famous and expressive of his shots. They have both love and hate, and sloppy focus, and graphic clarity of lines. Slender models of the Vogue magazine, with which the photographer has worked for many years, are side by side here with the chained inhabitants of the New York streets of the 50s. But all these frames have a wonderful property to convey the plastic of the figure, to touch a living thing, to convey the very essence.

Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

Bikinis. The girl on the Moscow River, 1959.

Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

On the street of New York, 1955.

Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

Models in Morocco, 1960's.

Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

Marie and the dove in a Paris cafe, 1957.

Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

Pistol-1, New York, 1955.

Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

Isabella, the dove, and the mirrors. Paris, shooting for Vogue, 1963.

Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

Dwarf and spirits, 1955.

Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

Model Barbara Mollen for Vogue Paris, 1966.

Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

Dancing in Brooklyn, 1954.

Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

Club Allegro Fortissimo, Paris, 1980.

Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

Girls in the dressing room, 60s.

Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

Movement and Pepsi, New York, 1955.

Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

Paris, 1960.

Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

Kinoafisha, Tokyo, 1961.

Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

Fashion shoot in Cairo, 1961.

Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

Moscow, 1959. Georgian tourist.

Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

New York, shooting for Vogue magazine, 1962.

Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

Pistol-2, New York, 1955.

Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

Model at breakfast, 1950s.

Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

Dance happening, Tokyo, 1961.

Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

Nina and Simone, Rome, shooting for Vogue magazine, 1960.

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