William Klein was born in New York in 1928 into a family of poor Jewish immigrants. His dad's clothing business crashed in 1928. But his extended family was mainly wealthy Lawyers. Growing up in the 30's he experienced antisemitism first hand, both from students at school, on the street and he was a Jewish boy on an Irish neighborhood. His friends remember him as a bright, sarcastic kid who liked arts and humanities. By the age of 14 he was already three years ahead of his class he enrolled into college.to study sociology. At 18, he spent two years
in the US army, stationed in Germany and Franceas a radio operator, before completing his course.
As an artist using photography, he set out to re-invent the photographic document.his photos, often blurred or out of focus, his high-contrastprints (his negatives were often severely over-exposed),his use of high-grain film and wide angles shocked the established order of the photography world and he earned a reputation as an anti-photographer's photographer.
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