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In fashion, you have assistants, flashes; you can make sets. There are people running around doing things for you. But I can take it or leave it.

~William Klein

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For my first book, 'New York,' I had one camera and two lenses. It was fotografia povera.

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Fashion was more of a sideline for me. I did it for the money.

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I like dark humor. I think the world is very funny and tragic, and my photographs are basically dark Jewish humor.

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I thought it would be good not to hide the fact that you're taking a photograph, and have people react and come in close and also make a commentary on what's being photographed: 'This is a photo, this is my point of view.'

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I thought it would be a good idea to look at New York with this half-European, half-native eye and really do something to get back at this city that I thought really gave me a hard time when I grew up.

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I always thought I was going to be an artist. I used to draw, and I would read Russian novels until 3 or 4 in the morning.

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If I didn't have to earn a living somehow, I would never have taken a fashion photograph in my life.

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When I was a kid in New York, long before saturation sports coverage, the world heavyweight championship was, with the baseball World Series, the great national event.

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If a film is a real knockout like 'Raging Bull,' it does not matter that it might not have happened like that.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Photographer

Born: April 19th, 1928

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