RARE William KLEIN - Piazzale, Rome 1956 Authentic Original Drawing Offset Print

Description: Sale!!! Mega RARE! Unique!!! William KLEIN - Piazzale Flaminio, Rome, 1956 Old Authentic Original Drawing Offset print Beautiful Famous photo! Print made in 2000 by a former art printer - Archival model Imprimeur duotone print enhanced with gloss varnish This print was found in the depths of an assembly workshop in the archive lockers of a former art printing works, preciously kept flat and protected from light in an envelope. Although it is old with its 22 years of age, it has remained in a good state of conservation. Presence of traces of dirt and marks on the back due to manipulations by the printer. On the other hand, the front is intact, in perfect condition and of a remarkable shine. This copy was kept by the printer in order to serve as a reference for its setting and coloring on the machine during reprints. Print format: 22.6 cm x 15 cm This is a print that the printer had archived as a reference model and laminated on a support in order to be able to preserve it over time. Remarkable print, very bright and contrasting, with beautiful dense tones. Its rendering as well as its definition with sharp details and its shine, are absolutely magnificent. “No rules, no prohibitions, no limits. »William Klein A wonderful testimony to traditional art printing which has totally disappeared these days. In 1956, the origin of William Klein's trip to Rome was initially his meeting with Federico Fellini, hired as an assistant director on the film "Les nuits de Cabiria". However, the shooting was delayed and the film got bogged down for a few months, while waiting for Klein to wander through the streets of the Italian capital and begin composing a new photographic diary, that of Rome, including this shot he took at the Piazzale Flaminio. It unframes, blurs, pushes the size of the grains of its image. He saturates by accentuating both black and white and colors and does not hesitate to create accidents and additions during his prints. “Photography, for me, is a way of saying what I think of life. »William Klein William Klein for 30 years reads with his camera at full speed the streets in images, he invents an original way to stage the world around him. Just like Man Ray, he is looking for a new writing, a new style, he says of Man Ray “We both look alike. He's a New York Jew like me. He did painting, photography, fashion, portraits and films”. In his photos, he accumulates ten years before Andy Warhol, where everything intersects, jostles on the sidewalks of Paris, New York, Moscow, Rome or Tokyo, as if daily life sprang from buildings, from the mouths of the subway, taxis, rushed into the great halls of the stations, trailed in front of the storefronts, advertisements, letters, slogans and posters. “Taking a photo is an excuse to be curious. I give myself the impression of doing something so I have less bad conscience. »William Klein Innovative, his photographic work contrasts with all that has been done before, a multifaceted artist, passionate, he never hesitates to change his mode of expression, with back and forth from painting to photography. He imposes a style and an instinctive gaze in the photographic field and influences photographers like Helmut Newton, Richard Avedon, Frank Horvat, David Bailey and Jeanloup Sieff. He makes the models of his works himself, wanting a new visual object, to break with the classic style of a photograph on one page with white margins and an explanatory text on the other. He is at the origin of an editorial change with double pages and full pages without margins, modernizing the reading, the photographs appearing like a film. Just before embarking for New York he bought his first Leica from Henri Cartier-Bresson, at the premises of the Magnum Photos agency. Arrived in New York, he noticed that Cartier-Bresson's 50mm lens does not suit his vision of the city. He wants to be able to get closer to people, objects and equips his camera with a wide angle, a 28mm, pointing it closer, thus giving birth to his first images of a revolutionary style and with a new perspective. What he likes is movement and movement above all, strong contrasts and the out of frame. By adopting Robert Capa's lesson “If your photos aren't good, it's because you aren't close enough”. William Klein with Robert Frank marks the entry of photography into contemporary art. Robert Frank with his work "The Americans", and William Klein with that of New York, they initiate a revolution, creating a break with old-fashioned photography of a clean and perfect image à la Henri Cartier-Bresson or the Robert Doisneau. The lens of his camera is striking, his photo shakes up, is strong and does not claim any documentary objectivity, he is present and can stage, interact with his subject. Incomparable photographer by the gift he has of never “locking himself into a system” declares the photographer Peter Lindbergh. His discretion is equal to the innovations he can bring to the world of photography. Throughout his career, he never ceases to question conventions and good manners, to always strive to avoid habits by the deliberate introduction of elements that have no place on the photo, chance, deformation, movement. He makes photography evolve towards a new space of expression, pop art, graphic design, dadaism. Conqueror of the photographic sky, William Klein revolutionized photography, produced both spectacular series of fashion and on the great capitals of the world, both in black and white and in color, with the same extreme audacity. His photography seems pushed to excess, both dynamic and static. His images are nothing but daring visual exercises by an artist who shakes up the old habits of photography. The vibrant impatience with which he uses a camera gives the impression of a developing tachism in photography, what looks like a dissolution is in fact a more intense gaze and photographic practice more in keeping with his era. Photographing is a moment of trance. When you can grab a lot of things at once, when I can feel the picture is going to be good. I'm waiting for everything to fall into place, I know it's going to happen. So I frame, I cock, I shoot. »William Klein William Klein (1928) French photographer born in New York, he is also a painter and director, nicknamed "bad boy". Son of Hungarian Jewish immigrants, he grew up in the Harlem district and did not follow in the footsteps of his father who ran a clothing store. From high school, he took over the artistic direction of the student newspaper, writing articles, laying out pages and drawing caricatures. He studied sociology at university and graduated in 1945. In 1946 at the age of 18, he enlisted in the occupying army and was sent as a G.I to Germany then to Paris where he discovered the capital for the first time. Demobilized in 1948, he decided to settle in Paris to become a painter and met Jeanne Florin there who became his wife in 1950, but also his main collaborator, his friend, his ally, his daily accomplice for more than 50 years. He attended the Sorbonne for a year and a half and studied during a short stay, painting at the studio of Fernand Léger. From 1951 to 1954, he discovered photography in Italy spending two years in Milan where he worked with the Italian architects Mangiarotti Zanuso and Gio Ponti on “Hard-edge” geometric murals. This reinforces his contemporary approach through which he deepens this new path by adopting it to his artistic vision. Seeking to document his achievements, he tries photography and realizes that by this means he can finally catch what he has always wanted to capture, movement, at this precise moment photography becomes the main ally of his work. that he will never leave. In 1954, he met Alex Liberman, artistic director of the American edition of "Vogue", who offered him a contract with the magazine. He is one of Vogue's official photographers alongside Richard Avedon and Henry Clarke. He went to New York and produced during his stay a kind of photographic journal which is the subject of his first book under the title of "Life is Good and Good For You in New York: Trance Witness Revels" published by Editions du Seuil in 1956. The book, for which he designed the model himself, very quickly became a reference and a collector's item, impossible to find these days. In 1957 his book was crowned and was rewarded with the Nadar Prize, very quickly noticed, the filmmaker Federico Fellini offered him a place as an assistant for the film "Les Nuits de Cabiria". He leaves for Rome, the delay of the film gives Klein the opportunity to realize, in the same spirit as his first work on New York, a series of shots of the Italian capital which he publishes under the title of "Rome" in 1959, at the same time he shot his first pop short film "Broadway by Light". In the early 1960s, William Klein produced films for French television and filmed programs such as "Cinq Columns à la Une". In 1963 at the “Photokina” he was honored with an exhibition “30 photographers who made the history of photography”. In 1964 he again published two works “Moscow” followed by “Tokyo” which were publishing successes. At the end of the 1960s, Klein moved away from photography to devote himself entirely to filmmaking. In 1966, he directed “Who are you, Polly Maggoo? which initially had little success but later became cult. And continues "Far from Vietnam" in 1967, "Mr. Freedom" in 1969, "Muhammad Ali the Greatest" in 1974, "The witness couple" in 1976. 1980 marked his return to photography, he published numerous books, monographs and catalogues. Klein appears as a new photographer, chaining exhibitions at MoMA and at the "Light Gallery" in New York, then two others later at the "Centre Pompidou" in Paris. He collaborates with the newspapers "Sunday's time", "Liberation" and for the firm "Leica". In 1984 he made the famous cover of the album "Love on the Beat" for Serge Gainsbourg. In 1990, he received the Hasselblad International Prize in Sweden and in 1991 he was awarded the rank of Commander of Arts and Letters. In 1999 he directed the feature film “The Messiah”. In 2002, he published "Paris+Klein" and a major exhibition, at the "Maison Européenne de la Photographie" was organized, paying tribute as much to the artist as to his intimate relationship that he maintained with the French capital. In 2005 his wife and lifelong love died in a clinic accident. The same year, the Center Pompidou again devotes a major retrospective to him and co-publishes "Retrospective" with Marval, a book of more than 400 pages which retraces the photographer's most important photographic works, films and paintings. The Grand Prix of the American Institute of Arts was awarded to him in 2007. In 2008, he published "Contacts", a collection of his large photographs revisited by painting interventions on enlarged contacts. He directed 35 films and nearly 250 commercials. But he also participated in many major films shot by great directors, notably that of Louis Malle "Zazie dans le métro" in 1960. Sale as is, no return. 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Price: 399 USD

Location: New York, New York

End Time: 2025-02-03T13:19:52.000Z

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