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William Klein
French Photographer
Born: Apr 19, 1928
Fashion Me People Photography Thought You
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My way of living and working is that I'll do my thing. I went from one thing to another. That annoyed people. They didn't know how to categorize me. William Klein
Me People Living Way One Thing Categorize Know Annoyed Another How Working Thing
I think it's obscene. I don't know how you support the monarchy. How can you do that? William Klein
You Think Obscene Support Know How Monarchy
I like festivals of all kinds: in 1969, I made a film about the first Pan-African festival in Algiers, which celebrated the countries that had been liberated 10 years earlier. There was a tremendous feeling of kinship. William Klein
Made First Feeling Tremendous Liberated Kinds About Kinship Had Countries Like Been Years Celebrated Festival Festivals Which Film Earlier
Memories. That's the thing about photography. I look at the contact sheet, and it brings back everything: whether I was tired, whether I was full of beans. William Klein
Tired Memories Photography Back Everything About Beans Contact Look Sheet Whether Full Thing Brings
Fashion had no interest for me. I would take photographs in the studio. I would go back home, and my wife would say, 'What is the fashion like for this season?' And I would say, 'I have no idea.' William Klein
Fashion Home Me Wife Back Say Would Photographs No Idea No Interest Take Had Studio Idea Like Go Interest Season
If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines - were mostly by accident. William Klein
Accident Think Films Back Books Collaborations Magazines Look Most Mostly Were Did Things
I like the streets. I grew up in the streets. William Klein
Like Up Grew Streets
Being an expatriate doesn't go down well in America. William Klein
Down Well Go America Being
I always dreamt of becoming an artist in Paris. Thanks to the Army, it happened. William Klein
Army Thanks Dreamt Paris Always Becoming Artist Happened
I like film. I'm old fashioned. William Klein
Old Like Old-Fashioned Film
In fashion, you have assistants, flashes; you can make sets. There are people running around doing things for you. But I can take it or leave it. William Klein
Fashion You People Sets Running Take Make Around Leave Doing Flashes Things Assistants
For my first book, 'New York,' I had one camera and two lenses. It was fotografia povera. William Klein
Book First Had New Camera York New York Lenses Two
I thought it would be good not to hide the fact that you're taking a photograph, and have people react and come in close and also make a commentary on what's being photographed: 'This is a photo, this is my point of view.' William Klein
Good You People Hide Thought Photo Photograph Photographed Would Would-Be Fact Point Point Of View Taking Come React Also Make Commentary Close Being View
I always thought I was going to be an artist. I used to draw, and I would read Russian novels until 3 or 4 in the morning. William Klein
Morning Thought Draw Would Russian Until Read Always Artist Going Used Novels
If I didn't have to earn a living somehow, I would never have taken a fashion photograph in my life. William Klein
Life Fashion My Life Living Earn Photograph Would Somehow Never Taken
If a film is a real knockout like 'Raging Bull,' it does not matter that it might not have happened like that. William Klein
Matter Like Does Real Bull Happened Might Raging Film
This is supposed to be the Big Apple, with neighborhoods where the houses are all good-looking and the skyscrapers and everything. But to me, New York is kind of shoddy and uncomfortable. William Klein
Me Big Everything Neighborhoods Kind Uncomfortable Good-Looking New Supposed Houses Shoddy York New York Where Skyscrapers Apple
The best critics of America are Americans. William Klein
Best Critics America American
My complaint is that Americans drive me crazy, and the politics drive me crazy. William Klein
Politics Me Crazy Drive Complaint American
I didn't really know who Cassius Clay was. I just wanted to show America through a heavyweight championship fight. Ever since my childhood, I'd been fascinated by the way the whole country becomes polarised around this event. William Klein
Fight Country Way Clay Through Since Know Around Becomes Been America Childhood Just Wanted Heavyweight Really Show Who Fascinated Whole Event Ever Championship
Most of the other soldiers were older than me and sent money back to their families, so they were more prudent. William Klein
Me Money Older Other Back Soldiers More Most Were Families Than Prudent Sent
I was a very clumsy Jewish kid. William Klein
Kid Very Clumsy Jewish
Don't have rules, taboos, or limits. William Klein
Rules Taboos Limits
In the late Fifties and early Sixties, I used to think that most of these fashion creators weren't that great, and if the photograph was good, it was mostly thanks to the photographer. William Klein
Good Fashion Great Thanks Think Late Photograph Photographer Most Mostly Were Sixties Fifties Used Creators Early
You do things for yourself, and you do things for other people, and you hope that these things coincide. William Klein
Hope You Yourself People Other Things Coincide
I think that Damien Hirst putting a shark in a bath of formaldehyde is nothing. William Klein
Nothing Think Bath Shark Putting
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