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Klein d'oeil at the Polka Gallery

Vendredi 03 Août 2012 15:13:22 par actuphoto dans Expositions

Expositions du 16/11/2010 au 29/1/2011 Terminé

Polka Galerie 12, rue Saint-Gilles 75003 Paris France

Mois de la photo 2010 Point information 5,7 rue de Fourcy 75004 Paris France

You can’t make William Klein do things. Anyone who’s tried has failed miserably, or has lied about having succeeded. He’s always the boss; he’s the one who decides what he’s going to shoot, edit, paint, assemble or compose.

That's why, convinced as we were that it would be pointless to suggest – and even more pointless to impose – a subject for this show, we decided to give him free rein.

There were a couple of “instructions”, though: first, he had to draw his inspiration from three of his photos chosen by us from the Aladdin's Cave of the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. These are three outstanding vintage prints that revolutionized fashion photography in the 1950s by setting models in real-life situations, in the middle of the crowd. In these three photos, Klein freed fashion from the mendacious constraints of the studio, switching off the artificial studio lights and switching on the lights of the city, bringing Haute Couture closer to the general public: the man and woman in the street.

These three photos form the starting point for William Klein's freely composed exhibition at Polka. The second instruction we gave him was that he should do exactly as he pleased. This he did quite methodically – to our great delight


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