I have always done the opposite of what I was trained to do... Having little technical background, I became a photographer. Adopting a machine, I do my utmost to make it malfunction. For me, to make a photograph is to make an anti-photograph.
Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work. - William Klein
Be yourself. I much prefer seeing something, even it is clumsy, that doesn't look like somebody else's work.
- William Klein
I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of ph… - William Klein
I was a make believe ethnographer: treating New Yorkers like an explorer would treat Zulus - searching for the rawest snapshot, the zero degree of ph…
Anybody who pretends to be objective isn't realistic. - William Klein
Anybody who pretends to be objective isn't realistic.
I don't roam around with a camera and never did. I took pictures in spurts, for my books, for some assignments or on special occasions. Like people w… - William Klein
I don't roam around with a camera and never did. I took pictures in spurts, for my books, for some assignments or on special occasions. Like people w…
What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life. - William Klein
What would please me most is to make photographs as incomprehensible as life.
I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whate… - William Klein
I have always loved the amateur side of photography, automatic photographs, accidental photographs with uncentered compositions, heads cut off, whate…
I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photogra… - William Klein
I thought New York had it coming, that it needed a kick in the balls. When I returned to New York, I wanted to get even. Now I had a weapon, photogra…
Sometimes, I'd take shots without aiming, just to see what happened. I'd rush into crowds - bang! bang! ... It must be close to what a fighter feels … - William Klein
Sometimes, I'd take shots without aiming, just to see what happened. I'd rush into crowds - bang! bang! ... It must be close to what a fighter feels …
I feel like I'm doing something that's worthwhile. I feel like I'm showing something other people haven't shown. I don't get to talk to the people wh… - William Klein
I feel like I'm doing something that's worthwhile. I feel like I'm showing something other people haven't shown. I don't get to talk to the people wh…
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