William Klein - Painted Contacts (MINT CONDITION, SHRINK-WRAPPED) - 2020

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WONDERFUL BOOK by legendary French-American photographer William Klein (1926-2022),
showing his painted contacts - in BRANDNEW CONDITION.

With an introduction by the legendary publisher Robert Delpire.

New, mint, unread; still originally shrink-wrapped in publisher's plastic foil.
COLLECTOR'S COPY.

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.

'Working at the nexus of painting and photography, William Klein conceived this original series when he was in the process of reviewing other photographers’ contact sheets for a film he was making. Referencing the age of film photography, when photographers selected images by circling individual negatives on a contact sheet with brightly colored grease pencils, Klein’s works invent a new kind of art object that organically marries painting and photography. The resulting pieces are enormous mural-sized works in which bold, kinetic color frames and reframes enlarged black-and-white images from throughout his career. Klein’s iconic fashion and street photography, always gritty and bold, is given a new immediacy and relevance in this second life. In his foreword to this edition, Klein describes these works as “all brush strokes and jubilation. The jubilation of painting recall(s) the celebration of taking the photo.'
(from the publisher)

Prestel. Munich, London, New York. 2020. First edition, first printing.

Hardcover (as issued). 204 x 290 mm. 140 pages. Photos: William Klein. Design and layout: William Klein, Pierre-Louis Denis. Editorial direction at Prestel: Curt Holtz. Production management at Prestel: Corinna Pickart. Printing and binding: EBS, Verona. Introduction: Robert Delpire. Text in English.

Great photobook by William Klein - in perfect condition.
Original first edition published by Roberto Koch Editore in the same year (2020).

'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)