Topic: another short William Klein interview

[hookstrapped]

I can't get enough of the guy, so...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl3OGpAi6Dw&list=PLHivtpdq8bp7jzDyaOAdxuk25TccIWKT8&index=1

[zapsnaps]

Such  a nice old guy. Great work.

BUT... he does remind me, somehow, of Spike Milligan. I've watched a lot of his video interviews and there is a similarity there, in my mind anyway.

I really like his paintings, too

[Hungry Mike]

he does remind me, somehow, of Spike Milligan.

Have you seen his movies? Mister Freedom in particular has that vibe. Certainly of its time but very silly.

[Aksel]

Cool gent!
He makes everything sound so easy, and I guess it is, if you are Klein 

[Francois]

Mister Freedom in particular has that vibe. Certainly of its time but very silly.

I must admit that that movie doesn't do well on subtlety.
I haven't seen it in a very long time...

[Hungry Mike]

doesn't do well on subtlety

Ha! No it doesn't. Like I said, very much of its time and place.

[Late Developer]

I went to the William Klein and Daido Moriyama exhibition in London a couple of years ago and enjoyed the William Klein side of it a lot more than Moriyama's.  However, I saw some of William Klein's more recent stuff and he'd "gone digital" (became Sony Digital Imaging's first "ambassador") and, in doing so, appeared to have turned the contrast, brightness and saturation dials "up to eleven".  I can't say it was a look I care for.

Very interesting bloke, though, and I'm hoping to pick up a couple of his earlier books for Christmas and/or my birthday.