Brooklin + Klein. Ediz. inglese - Hardcover

Through the Global Imaging Ambassadors programme, Sony works in close partnership with photographers diverse in both style and geographical location. The symbiotic partnership will see Sony lending its technical expertise and groundbreaking products, whilst benefiting from participating photographers’ exceptional imagery, professional feedback and brand support. Working with each photographer individually, bespoke commissions are created to produce unique images for the programme, using Sony’s high-end line of photographic equipment. These commissions includes the master photographer William Klein. This past summer the photographer came back in New York – 60 years following his seminal work, Life is Good and Good for you in New York – and he documented Brooklyn, a city he refers to as ‘the America of tomorrow’. Contrasto is now publishing in an elegant and amazing book the digital colors pictures that William Klein took in Brooklyn.

William Klein: William Klein (born in New York, New York, USA, on April 19, 1928) is a photographer and filmmaker noted to for his ironic approach to both media and his extensive use of unusual photographic techniques in the context of photojournalism and fashion photography. He was ranked 25th on Professional Photographer's Top 100 Most influential photographers. Trained as a painter, Klein studied under Fernand Leger and found early success with exhibitions of his work. However, he soon moved on to photography and achieved widespread fame as a fashion photographer for Vogue and for his photo essays on various cities. Despite having no training as a photographer, Klein won the Prix Nadar in 1957 for New York, a book of photographs taken during a brief return to his hometown in 1954. Klein's work was considered revolutionary for its "ambivalent and ironic approach to the world of fashion," its "uncompromising rejection of the then prevailing rules of photography" and for his extensive use of wide-angle and telephoto lenses, natural lighting and motion blur. Klein tends to be cited in photography books along with Robert Frank as among the fathers of street photography, one of those mixed compliments that classifies a man who is hard to classify.[4] The world of fashion would become the subject for Klein's first feature film, Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, which, like his other two fiction features, Mr. Freedom and The Model Couple, is a satire. Klein has directed numerous short and feature-length documentaries and has produced over 250 television commercials. Though American by birth, Klein has lived and worked in France since his late teens. His work has sometimes been openly critical of American society and foreign policy; the film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum once wrote that Klein's 1968 satire Mr. Freedom was "conceivably the most anti-American movie ever made."