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william klein bellingham william klein bellingham Within the wake of his death, we take a look at a number of the seminal images from the ICP’s William Klein retrospective William Klein was a real original whose work as a photographer, artist, and filmmaker defined an era, expanding and subverting the visual language of midcentury fashion photography and photojournalism. With wit, dynamism, and a characteristic ironic distance, his vast body of labor shaped the look of the latter half of the twentieth century. The Sixties appear like the Sixties, partly, because Klein’s famous images tell us the right way to recall that febrile decade within the cultural imagination. On Saturday September 10, 2022, Klein died at home in Paris, town by which the American-born photographer...