When Klein first started photographing the streets of New York in the 50′s, he did so with a “photographic diary” approach. At the time, he didn’t think of creating a book on New York or anything of the sort.
However one thing that I found fascinating is how he mentions that he doesn’t believe in the idea of “carrying a camera everywhere you go.” Rather, he mentions how he photographs with high-intensity when working on a project or a book:
“I don’t roam around with a camera and never did. I took pictures in spurts, for my books, for some assignments or on special occasions. Like people who take out their cameras for Christmas and birthdays. Each time, like them, probably, I feel it’s the first time and as if I would have to relearn the moves. Luckily, it comes pretty fast, like riding a bike.” – William Klein (1990)
Interesting enough, Klein didn’t actually spend a lot of time of his life shooting on the streets. However because he focused intensely, he was able to finish his books and projects quickly and efficiently.
John Heilpern wrote this about William Klein in an Aperture Monograph of him (1981):
“Just as Klein himself lives in self-inflicted limbo in paris, he appears to have made of his career what amounted to a willfull noncareer. Everything he worked at over the years, from his paintings to his later political films, he abandoned eventually to start afresh.
His four books of photography, on which so much of his reputation is based, took him an average of 3 months each to photograph and several more months to edit and design. (Klein did the design, typography, covers, and texts for all his books.) But little more than four years of his life have actually been spent seriously taking photographs.”
When Klein first started photographing the streets of New York in the 50′s, he did so with a “photographic diary” approach. At the time, he didn’t think of creating a book on New York or anything of the sort.
However one thing that I found fascinating is how he mentions that he doesn’t believe in the idea of “carrying a camera everywhere you go.” Rather, he mentions how he photographs with high-intensity when working on a project or a book:
“I don’t roam around with a camera and never did. I took pictures in spurts, for my books, for some assignments or on special occasions. Like people who take out their cameras for Christmas and birthdays. Each time, like them, probably, I feel it’s the first time and as if I would have to relearn the moves. Luckily, it comes pretty fast, like riding a bike.” – William Klein (1990)
Interesting enough, Klein didn’t actually spend a lot of time of his life shooting on the streets. However because he focused intensely, he was able to finish his books and projects quickly and efficiently.
John Heilpern wrote this about William Klein in an Aperture Monograph of him (1981):
“Just as Klein himself lives in self-inflicted limbo in paris, he appears to have made of his career what amounted to a willfull noncareer. Everything he worked at over the years, from his paintings to his later political films, he abandoned eventually to start afresh.
His four books of photography, on which so much of his reputation is based, took him an average of 3 months each to photograph and several more months to edit and design. (Klein did the design, typography, covers, and texts for all his books.) But little more than four years of his life have actually been spent seriously taking photographs.”
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