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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.

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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.


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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.

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Barbara with Hat and Five Roses, 1956
Hat with Five Roses is a true icon - one of the most famous fashion photographs of the last 40 years. Gracing around 50 separate magazine covers since the photo was taken in 1956, its combination of allure, eye-catching directness and striking composition has made it a lasting favorite - this silver print is one of William Klein's most popular works, selling consistently into a knowledgeable market. Barbara Mullen was Klein's favorite model, a notorious character at a time when there were no individually recognized 'supermodels'. Her chameleon-like abilities meant that she was often unrecognizable from shot to shot, adopting a different personality with each pose. Here she plays an ambiguous femme fatale - half hidden behind a smokescreen, with her black eyes echoing the dark backdrop, pulling on her cigarette butt like a sailor under an absurdly chic hat

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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.'

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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

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Evelyn Tripp, Paris 1958

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Simone Daillencourt, Nina Devos, Capucci, Rome, 1960

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Mary, Policeman and Sailor., 1957

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'I Love Secretaries', 1955
Series 'Life is Good and Good for You in New York' (1954-55). Although among Klein's very first photographs, they quickly became a remarkable 'cause celebre'. Part fond family album for his native New York, part furious satire on the city, when published in Paris they struck dissonant chords with the anecdotal and poetic strains of the prominent European photographers of the time, Cartier-Bresson and Robert Doisneau. Klein's small psychodramas had a new sensibility the irreverence of Dada, the curiosities of Surrealism and the flavors of ugly, popular Americana. Klein was fascinated by the rude interruption of mass media and brash signography into the fabric of daily urban life. His figures always seem awkwardly posed beside its slick injunctions . They struggle and are lonely, while the images promise all. Klein summed it all up in the chapter entitled 'I Need'.

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Supermarket andGun, 1955
Series 'Life is Good and Good for You in New York'. Klein's many images of kids with guns, collected in the chapter 'Gun', have become some of the most famous images of the series. As he said, 'It's..part of the fake violence which, in New York, can become real violence in two seconds. But it is very often psychodrama.' For Klein, these moments were as much about absurd irreverent comedy as prophetic warning.
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Broadway and 103rd Street, New York, 1954-55

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Candy Store, Amsterdam Avenue, New York, 1954-55

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Dance in Brooklyn, 1955

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Girl Dancing in Brooklyn, 1955
Series 'Life is Good and Good for You in New York' (1954-55). 'The light as going,' he said, 'I used a slow shutter speed. This was towards the beginning of my photographic adventure. It was only the day after that I discovered what the blur could contribute'.
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Black Women, Profile in Crowd, 1955
Crowds, profiles and candid shots were William Klein's staple in the New York series, and he became adept at picturing the momentary actions of strangers in compositions caught with a wide-angle lens. If David Reisman summed up the post-war American mood in his novel 'The Lonely Crowd', this was its visual representation.

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Woman and Saks, 1955
Saks's flagship department store had been a fixture on Fifth Avenue since 1924, so the connotations were already clear for Klein in the 50s. Such up-close and unflattering candid shots of the wealthy were typical of one of Klein's acknowledged influences, Weegee, who had covered the smart set for New York tabloids. This was a fine tribute


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7Up, 1954
This shot - a detail of a scene he included in his original volume - captures the essence of what Klein called 'Surrealist suburbia'. The original scene depicted a clump of trees covered in small tin-plate adverts 'outside a diner in Long Island, almost every tree bearing its message', Klein wrote.

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Stood Up at Childs, 1955
Klein was fascinated by the cheap functionalism of the period's automat restaurants, and Childs' was a famous chain which had been in New York since 1889. By this stage however, the self service eateries were going out of fashion, becoming sorry, shabby resorts associated with the loitering homeless.

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Man Foreground, Woman Behind, 1955
Klein's shots of teeming crowds, of general street life and its spectators, were absolutely central to the New York series, and he devoted a chapter just to them, 'Streets'. Such overbearing figures as these, rushing past angry or ambivalent, are emblematic of post-war American photography.

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Mighty Mouse, 1954
Klein loved parades and said he never missed a single one while working on the New York project. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, where this was taken, was perhaps the greatest of them all. On returning to New York by boat, sweeping into the harbour, Klein recalled feeling 'like a Macy's parade balloon floating back after a million orbits.'

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Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Broadway, 1954-55

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St Patricks Day, 1955
This image has all the curious antics and parade celebrations which were some of Klein's favorite themes in the New York series. The St. Patrick's Day Parade was an obvious attraction, something that had been an institution of New York life since the very first one in 1766. Typically, Klein caught those involved a little off-guard.

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4 Girls, Easter Sunday, 1955
Klein loved awkward glamour, and this shot of young girls from Harlem, stepping out in style for Easter Sunday, was also a perfect conjunction with another favorite theme, children. But in contrast to his shots of big city nightlife and young fashions, this image has a warmer, less knowing, somehow more contented heart.

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Kids Making Faces, 1955
The rude pleasures of young kids playing on the street were one of Klein's greatest enthusiasms, typical of the volume's chapters 'Funk' and 'Gun'. It was something he also shared with contemporaries such as Helen Levitt, finding the anarchic poses and curious games of the poorest children a strange echo of surrealist art.

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Star Spangled Banner, 1955
Ebbets Field was a famous ballpark, home turf for the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team. Perhaps it made a perfect subject for Klein's melancholic eye as it was to close only tow years later in 1957. Certainly the mood captured here was typical of his photographs: the National Anthem was playing, but the crowd are not a picture of pride

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Three Kids and Flag, 1955
As Klein said himself, when he was working on the New York book, 'I never missed a parade'. This image combines the parade with another of the volume's interests, young children on the street, to capture what for Klein were clashes of personalities and loyalties, boredom and excitement.

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Man Looks at Camera in Crowd, 1955
Street scene confrontations such as these are not only typical of Klein's volume on New York but emblematic of a whole school of urban American photographers, including Robert Frank and Diane Arbus. Just as Klein always saw himself, the new photographers had become fine artists, spies, ethnographers and satirists; the public weren't always willing accomplices.

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Rant, 1954
Klein adored New York's neon cityscape, and transformed the fragments of words into abstract compositions which float quite free of the buildings they light - and reflect, in this case the Chrysler Building.The success of images such as these, which are heavily influenced by the irreverence of Dada, led him to make the film 'Broadway by Light' shortly afterwards.

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Somersault, 1955
In 1956, William Klein's defining book, New York, caused a sensation - it pioneered the harshly cropped 'snapshot aesthetic' that so perfectly captured the buzz of the metropolis. The photographs were some of Klein's earliest, and were taken when he returned to the city after a long absence in Europe. 'I roamed the streets with the ultimate secret weapon: the Truth Camera,' Klein recalls, astonished that nobody had thought of making this work before. 'What amazed me, minute after minute, was that it was all there for the taking.'

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Class of 55, 1955
Series 'Life is Good and Good for You in New York'. Curiously, Klein's book was taken on by its publisher as a guide book, and so he devoted the last chapter, 'City', to the subject of the concrete cityscape. But for Klein, mass media, sign boards and posters had become an integral part of the fabric of that timeless landscape - smearing it, as much as enriching it.
 
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Crowd, Palladium Ballroom, 1955
Klein had what he called a 'devouring hunger for faces, bodies, crowds' and this clamorous scene in New York's Palladian Ballroom was clearly an irresistible attraction. Many images such as this one, of the brash excitement of metropolitan night-life, were brought together in the 'Funk' chapter of the book.

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Theater Tickets, New York, 1955

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St Patrick's Day, Fifth Avenue, 1954-55

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