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I always dreamed of working in Paris, of going to the Coupole and slapping Picasso or Giacometti on the shoulder.

~William Klein

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My father was convinced that America was the greatest place in the world. I'm afraid I didn't have the family I would have dreamed of.

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My sister was brilliant: she was in the 25 top math students in the country. When she finished college, I said, 'Spend a couple of months here in Europe. You'll get another take on life.' She never came - married some schmuck who made clothes for fat women on Seventh Avenue.

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I'm an outsider, I guess.

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I wasn't part of any movement. I was working alone, following my instinct.

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Photography led me to experiment in graphic work and, actually, painting.

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I'm known for fashion photographs, but fashion photographs were mostly a joke for me. In 'Vogue,' girls were playing at being duchesses, but they were actually from Flatbush, Brooklyn. They would play duchesses, and I would play Cecil Beaton.

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When you use film, you use accidents, but there aren't any accidents with digital photography. I don't mind that it's easy. But I do mind that there is a sort of consensus with the camera and the subject and the light, and you look at something, and you photograph it, and you get what you see.

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The digital camera takes photographs in practically no light: it will dig out the least bit of light available. I was amazed to see the results of photographs that I wouldn't take ordinarily. That's the advantage of digital photography.

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I grew up in Manhattan. For Manhattanites, Brooklyn was the sticks, a second-rate civilization. My friends and I, we were so snobby. Living in the Bronx or Brooklyn was incredible... for me, that was like a foreign country.

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Biography

Nationality: French

Type: Photographer

Born: April 19th, 1928

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