in & out of fashion

William Klein

since the beginning of fashion photography around
the year 1900, the imagination of the photographer
has attempted to transform the model and the
garment into something artful: more than just a
photograph showing a woman wearing a dress.
by injection fantasy through the use of hair styles
and make-up, and experiments in composition.

the photographs span klein's entire career up to
the present, with particular emphasis on his fashion
photography, surreal images which have influenced
generations of fashion photographers.
his innovations have not only been technological,
but also philosophical: he encouraged his models
to 'act' rather than just to 'pose',
and his 'street esthetics' opened up a new dimension
in fashion photography.
klein also had his fashion contract with vogue.
he lacked studio experience, so preferred to take his
models out into the street or on location.
he posed his models in a group of mannequins,
crossing busy streets, surrounded by a crowd whose
faces he painted out as blank masks.

and he often said he had little or no interest in the clothes...

http://www.designboom.com/portrait/klein_bio.html

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