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Barbara plus Coffee Filter, Paris 1956
William Klein said of his subject: 'Barbara Mullen was the first model I really related to, because she was a clown; she was really able to laugh at the scene and herself'. Here, Mullen brings fake drama to a most prosaic activity - making coffee.
Barbara, Over Gadgeted, Does Lips, Paris 1956
William Klein was able to take risks in his fashion photographs because, as he said, 'as long as I showed the clothes, the magazine didn't care what I did'. Here, Barbara Mullen makes a production of applying her lipstick while smoking a cigarette through its long holder. The image is a parody of fashion magazines' obsessions with useless and ridiculously expensive gadgets and nonsensical rituals.
Barbara With Black Flower Snack, Paris 1956
William Klein thought it was amazing how you couldn't recognize his favorite model, Barbara Mullen, from one photo to another. 'She wasn't really beautiful,' he said, 'but she moved and wore makeup in such a graphic way that she had something else.' That something else was a willingness to go against the snooty femininity of typical fashion photographs of the time. In this picture, Klein captured Mullen's goofing for the camera and childlike appetite for play - she would just as soon eat her hat as wear it.
Barbara in Night Cap, Paris 1956
William Klein claimed that you couldn't recognize Barbara Mullen - his favorite model - from one photo to another, due to her uncanny ability to slip into different personas before the camera. 'She wasn't really beautiful,' he said, 'but she moved and wore makeup in such a graphic way that she had something else.'
Barbara in the 20's, 1956
William Klein described Barbara Mullen as 'just a girl from the streets', but she had a chameleonic quality that made her his favorite fashion model. Here - laughing at fashion's tendency to reach into the recent past for inspiration - he showed her pretending to be a sophisticated habitu' of 'Gay Paris' in the 20s
Evelyn Tripp, Paris 1958
Simone Daillencourt, Nina Devos, Capucci, Rome, 1960
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