Love and Hate: Expressive photos of the great William Klein

"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.

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.

Bikinis. The girl on the Moscow River, 1959.

On the street of New York, 1955.

Models in Morocco, 1960's.

Marie and the dove in a Paris cafe, 1957.

Pistol-1, New York, 1955.

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

Dwarf and spirits, 1955.

Model Barbara Mollen for Vogue Paris, 1966.

Dancing in Brooklyn, 1954.

Club Allegro Fortissimo, Paris, 1980.

Girls in the dressing room, 60s.

Movement and Pepsi, New York, 1955.

Paris, 1960.

Kinoafisha, Tokyo, 1961.

Fashion shoot in Cairo, 1961.

Moscow, 1959. Georgian tourist.

New York, shooting for Vogue magazine, 1962.

Pistol-2, New York, 1955.

Model at breakfast, 1950s.

Dance happening, Tokyo, 1961.

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