This landmark retrospective showcases the diverse creative legacy of William Klein, highlighting his contributions to photography, filmmaking, painting, book design, and graphic design. It offers a comprehensive look at his innovative work and the impact he had on visual culture, celebrating his unique artistic vision and influence across multiple mediums.
A new volume in Photofile, an accessible and affordable photography series Photographer William Klein was born in New York City in 1928. After enlisting in the army he was stationed in Germany and then France, where he would later settle permanently. His interest in art began with abstract painting and shifted to photography in the early 1950s as he began his career in fashion photography with Vogue magazine. He gained notoriety for his ambivalent and ironic approach to fashion photography and can be credited as one of the founding fathers of street photography. He directed such satirical films as Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, as well as documentary shorts and features. This latest volume in the Photofile series assembles the experimental, unforgettable moments captured by William Klein in one accessible volume. The Photofile series brings together the best work of the world’s greatest photographers in an attractive format and at an affordable price. Handsome and collectible, the books are produced at the highest quality. Each volume contains some sixty full-page reproductions, a critical introduction, and a full bibliography. The series was awarded the first annual prize for distinguished photographic books by the International Center of Photography.
Exploring the evolution of Pop culture from the late 1950s to the late 1960s, this comprehensive survey examines its impact on art, film, photography, and architecture, highlighting the interplay between mass production and mass media. Unlike other works that focus solely on Pop art, it offers a holistic view of the movement's influence across America, Britain, and Europe, showcasing its diverse manifestations and cultural significance during this transformative era.
This astonishing book, for which all the photographs have been selected and laid out by William Klein himself, is an inspiring visual history of a long and distinguished career. His chronologically arranged collection of work includes iconic photographs, painted contact sheets and magazine covers, as well as examples of his seminal photo-books of the 1950s and 1960s, represented here by their powerfull jackets and spreads. Black-and-white and colour fashion photographs range from portraits to filmic and surreal tableaux, revealing klein's revolutionary impact on the genre, whilst film posters and stills show the ways in which he captured and commented on the spirit of the times, creating biopics of muhammad ali and Little Richard and Feature films with stars including Donald Pleasance and Serge Gainsbourg. William Klein : ABC Showccases his masterful achievements at their very best. Supplementing the stunning images is an insightful text by David Campany that in Klein's own opinion would be impossible to better as a succint distillation and fine understanding of his life's work accross a wide range of artistic fields.
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 120, this work addresses the significant threat posed by earthquakes in urban areas. The January 16, 1995 Kobe earthquake, a magnitude 6.9 event, resulted in an estimated $200 billion in damages, highlighting the potential devastation in cities like Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle along the Pacific plate boundary. Despite Japan's active earthquake prediction efforts, this event was unexpected, underscoring the challenges in forecasting such disasters. The irregular intervals of the largest earthquakes, occurring over hundreds to thousands of years, limit historical data and complicate phenomenological studies. The papers presented here explore a novel approach rooted in new insights into earthquake physics, facilitated by numerical simulations. These simulations allow for the investigation of earthquake dynamics in a controlled environment, enabling researchers to derive theoretical models that can be applied to real-world data. Advances in information technology have made these computational resources increasingly accessible, enhancing our ability to understand and predict seismic events.
Geheime Missionen verwickeln einen Künstler, den Freund und Vertrauten des äKetzerkönigsä Echnaton, in politische und religiöse Machtkämpfe. Vom Sohn eines Sklaven steigt er in einer Zeit tiefgreifender Umbrüche zum Geliebten der Königin auf.
Tutanchamon, faraon-chlapec je v době svého nástupu na královský trůn ve věku dítěte. Díky této skutečnosti musí čelit různým intrikám a posléze i fyzickému útoku na svou osobu.
Lesk a bohatství dávné kultury, boj o moc, pletichy a vášně - to vše je obsahem mystického románu ze starého Egypta. Kenofer, mladý otrok, se po smrti svého otce ocitá ve službách nejvyššího kněze, který jej za trest záhy posílá na papyrové plantáže. Díky útěku a svému příteli, princi Petarovi, může absolvovat školu pro budoucí úředníky a vojáky faraonova dvora. Mezitím se Petara stává faraonem a Kenofer je zatažen do mnoha intrik, jež bují v celé zemi.
Tout gosse, William Klein rêvait de vivre à Paris comme Henry Miller, Gertrude Stein, et Cie. En 1948, démobilisé de l'armée US à Paris, il y est resté - pour fuir sa famille et l'Amérique et devenir peintre. Très rapidement, il a trouvé une autre famille et la reconnaissance de son talent. PARIS+KLEIN rassemble des photographies, aussi bien en noir qu'en couleur, des premières faites dans les années soixante à celles réalisées quelques jours avant la mise sous presse en mars 2002 : des gens de la rue, des personnalités, des manifestations, la mode, les flics, les courses, la politique, le métro, le football, la mort... la vie de cette grande capitale avec le regard de Klein, vif, acide, mélancolique, humoristique, ironique, émouvant.
