French - Photographer | April 19, 1928 -
I thought it would be a good idea to look at New York with this half-European, half-native eye and really do something to get back at this city that I thought really gave me a hard time when I grew up.
William Klein
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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.
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If I didn't have to earn a living somehow, I would never have taken a fashion photograph in my life.
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When I was a kid in New York, long before saturation sports coverage, the world heavyweight championship was, with the baseball World Series, the great national event.
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If a film is a real knockout like 'Raging Bull,' it does not matter that it might not have happened like that.
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The kinetic quality of New York, the kids, dirt, madness - I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it. So I cropped, blurred, played with the negatives.
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I had an experience that was kind of backward. Instead of thinking that photography was a step down, it brought me a step up, to transpose and modify things.
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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.
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People didn't object to me taking their photo. It was something everybody thought was their due: to be King for a Day, win the lottery and be photographed.
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The best critics of America are Americans.
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My complaint is that Americans drive me crazy, and the politics drive me crazy.
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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.
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