William Klein was born in Manhattan on April 19, 1926. His father was a tailor who owned a clothing store but lost it in the 1929 stock market crash; his mother was a homemaker.

William Klein, American photographer, in front of photos of the series New York at the photo exhibition Retrospective Photographs and Films at the museum for photographie C/O Galerie in Berlin ...

Photographer William Klein, who revolutionized fashion and street photography in the late 20th century with gritty images of metropolitan life in New York, Paris and Rome dies aged 96.

PARIS, France — American photographer William Klein, who made his mark with imagery of fashion and urban life, died in Paris on Saturday, aged 96, his son Pierre Klein said in a statement Monday.

William Klein, one of the pioneering fathers of street photography, once an unhappy child of 1950s Manhattan who became a much-loved artist, has died at the age of 96 in Paris. ‘I came from the ...

William Klein, Candy Store, Amsterdam Avenue, New York, 1955. (Courtesy of Howard Greenberg Gallery) One of photography’s secret powers is to turn time inside out. It takes a constellation of ...

One of William Klein's early mentors, artist Fernand Leger, told him: "Get out of the galleries. Look at buildings; go out onto the street." That is exactly what Klein did — and he went on to ...

It clocks in at 600 works. The show’s curator, David Campany, says “artists like Klein, who ranged freely and avoided specialism, are key to understanding the culture of the last century.” Born at New ...

William Klein, a giant in the world of photography, died on Sept. 10 at the age of 96. Throughout his prodigious career, he worked in a staggering number of genres, including painting, graphic ...

William Klein, “New York. Atom Bomb Sky” (1955) Also available in full is Klein’s very first documentary, 1958’s Broadway By Light, a much more impressionistic endeavor.

US photographer William Klein takes pictures during an exposition named "William Klein Rome photos - 1956/1960 ", in the Rome's Trajan Market on April 13, 2010. Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images ...