Description: William Klein New York 1954.55 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE New York. 1954.55. Photographs, design, and a preface to the new edition by William Klein. Dewi Lewis, Manchester, United Kingdom. 1995. 256 pages. Folio. First edition thus. Hardcover in printed dust jacket. Photo-illustrated endpapers. Full page black and white reproductions. Text in English. Klein's 1956 book New York is Good and Good For You... is one of the undisputed classics of post-war photography. Part of its acclaim certainly had to do with its breaking a hundred years of photographic taboos, combining black humor, social satire, and poetry. This retitled version of that book includes almost a hundred additional pages of photographs, including dozens never before published. Considerably larger in format than the original, it also includes commentary on the photos by Klein himself. Standing alone without consideration for the original issue, this is a great book. Close up and in your face photo reportage by a great photographer. An amazing collection. Scarce in any edition and somewhat fragile. Good in a very good dust jacket. Boards show only light wear. Light wear to the dust jacket. Few scratches and scuff marks visible in the light. Now mylar protected. Internally, the first 6 pages are loose and starting to detach but still holding. The middle signatures extend beyond the length of earlier or later pages. Binding fragile. Internally clean, crisp and bright. Despite flaws a nice copy. Editorial Reviews From Library Journal In 1954 Klein returned to the city of his youth after living the life of a painter in Paris since the end of World War II. Vogue art director Alexander Liberman had agreed to pay him to photograph the city for a few months, though he was almost totally lacking in knowledge of or experience with a camera. The result was a collection of exuberant, cinematic images of the city's people and neighborhoods-by Klein's own description "pseudo-ethnography, parody, and Dada"-that Conde Nast never saw fit to publish. Reminiscent of Weegee in their grittiness, but with more humor and less sensationalism, and of Robert Frank in their unity of personal vision but not as bleak, the photographs are as vibrant today as when they were taken. Klein did publish a collection of these photos in Paris in 1956 in a book that is now a much-sought-after collector's item, but the man who went on to become a successful fashion and documentary photographer never saw this unique series widely exhibited or published in his home country-until now. Last year the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art presented these photos as part of its inaugural exhibits. And at long last libraries with an interest in photography will be able to pick up this selection of celebratory, quintessentially American images. Highly recommended. Eric Bryant, "Library Journal" Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. Product Description William Klein is recognized as one of the masters of photography, using a graphic "anti-technique". This collection features some of his work in New York during the period 1954-1955, his grainy images commenting upon the city's gritty postwar vitality.
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Binding: Hardcover w/Jacket
Subject: Art & Photography
Topic: Photography: Monographs
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Origin: English
Printing Year: 1995
3rd Level Category: Monographs
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
