Tuesday, 27 December 2011

PHOTOLOVE: William Klein.

Today, I have discovered the joys of William Klein. As it turns out, I already knew his work, I just didn't know it yet (you follow, I'm sure). Today my brother gave me apparently the first of my late christmas presents, a b-e-a-uuutiful book called "In Vogue: The Illustrated History of the World's Most Famous Fashion Magazine". Now I've only been flicking through it for about 15 minutes but there has been much ooh-ing and ahh-ing and i can tell already that thats my "productive" day out of the window.

In the first few pages there are an array of gorgeous large page spreads of uncredited photos. One of them, is this beaut:


I recognised this picture instantly. I'm so damn cool that sometimes when I see an uncredited fashion photo I like to see if I can recognise/work out who it is by either purely from memory or by evaluating their photographic style and often the models involved. I am proud to announce that in this little round I correctly identified two Irving Penns, a Steven Miesel, a Peter Lindbergh and a Helmut Newton (woo! 10 points to gryffindor). But this mysterious smoking vamp had me stumped. I KNEW I had seen this photo before, and I was umming and ahhing on whether it was another Irving Penn, or perhaps even a Guy Bourdin or Richard Avedon. I looked through all my photography files on my trusty mac and found it saved under Cecil Beaton..!

Thankfully I managed to find the credits for these introductory pages buried in the back of the book, and consequently discovered Klein. He's quite the magician. Take a look.












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She's a bit scary isn't she? Whoa. But nonetheless, Klein rules.

Alice.

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