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© William Klein
After eight years in Europe, William Klein returned to the city of his birth in 1954 at the age of 26. New York is familiar and yet strange to him. The city in which he had once felt excluded had changed dramatically. He decided to radically re-capture New York - subjectively, intuitively and with unexpected perspectives.
He portrays the booming metropolis, the city of Coca-Cola, Wall Street, big cars and flashing billboards as a dark, harsh and oppressive place - and creates his most famous and at the same time most influential work: the photo book ‘New York 1954-1955’. He was perhaps the first photographer to design the book integrally himself: in photography, typography, layout, cover design and text. It is considered a milestone in the history of photography, which liberated photography from its narrow conventional corset. Photobastei is showing a selection of 130 images from the book New York 1954.55. Life is Good and Good for You is New York: Trance Witness Revels in an exhibition from 12 September to 3 November in Zurich.
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