SIGNED; William Klein - Torino '90 - 1990

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FANTASTIC BOOK by legendary French-American photographer William Klein (1926-2022).
"William Klein: 1 città + i Mondiali = Torino ’90" documents Turin during the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Klein’s typically chaotic, high-contrast black-and-white style, blending city life and football passion into a continuous visual flow.

Signed by the artist.
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The book features around 300 photographs from Turin, capturing passions, passersby, advertising, and architecture during the tournament. It is designed in Klein’s signature style, with images running continuously without interruption or spacing.
The book is part of Klein’s series of city photobooks (similar to New York, Rome, Moscow, and Tokyo), which he conceived as a “rebellion” against conventional photography.

William Klein is famous since his first book ('Life is good & good for you in New York'), which came out in 1956 (Andrew Roth, The Book of 101 Books, page 140-143; The Open Book, Hasselblad Center, page 204/205; 802 books from the M.+M. Auer collection, page 436).

William Klein was a photographer, painter, and filmmaker. He has produced several books of photographs and has exhibited in London, Paris, and New York. His work is owned by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

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Federico Motta Editore, Milan. 1990. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover with dustjacket. 248 x 350 mm. 176 pages. Photos: William Klein. Text in English.

Condition:
Book inside and outside excellent, fresh and flawless, clean with no marks and with no foxing. Dustjacket quite fresh and complete with no tears, with no taped tears and with no missing parts; a bit sunned at the bottom and at bottom right corner of the front. Overall fine to very fine condition.

Great photobook by William Klein with original dustjacket - signed by the artist.

'William Klein was an American-born French photographer and filmmaker noted 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 list of 100 most influential photographers.
Klein trained as a painter, studying under Fernand Léger, and found early success with exhibitions of his work. He soon moved on to photography and achieved widespread fame as a fashion photographer for Vogue and for his photo essays on various cities. He directed feature-length fiction films, numerous short and feature-length documentaries and produced over 250 television commercials.
He was awarded the Prix Nadar in 1957, the Royal Photographic Society's Centenary Medal and Honorary Fellowship (HonFRPS) in 1999, and the Outstanding Contribution to Photography Award at the Sony World Photography Awards in 2011.
A retrospective exhibition of his work, William Klein: YES: Photographs, Paintings, Films, 1948–2013, was shown at the International Center of Photography in New York until September 15, 2022.'
(Wikipedia)