In Conversation with William Klein

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 William Klein, Photographer, Film Maker and Painter An interesting short video, which accompanied Klein’s London exhibition at the Tate Gallery.  Always interesting to look back and listen to a great Master in Conversation. William Klein is an extraordinary individual, his creative practice encompasses Film Making, Photography and Painting.  Klein originally trained as a painter under Fernand Leger and found early success with his work.  He soon moved on to photography and had an extremely successful career as a fashion photographer with Vogue.  Iconic imagery is what Klein creates, whether he is on the street photographing as he sees it or photographing fashion models …

The Art of Street Photography

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A Unique Moment in Street Photography You pick up your camera and head off for the streets looking for the candid or personal moments of human expression which capture the time in which you live.  Street photography is an art form when it captures an absolute unique moment of time.   Although these moments exist it is often very difficult to identify what is truly unique and what is just like all the rest. When you first start out in street photography you find that you are taking hundreds of images of people you do not know, and every now and …