William Klein’s “Life Is Good and Good for You in New York” remains one of the most exciting and idiosyncratic photography books of the past century. It’s the centerpiece of a new retrospective at the International Center of Photography.
“I went to town and photographed non-stop, with literally, vengeance,” William Klein wrote of the book of New York City street photographs that he made in 1954 and 1955. He added, “I saw the book as a tabloid gone berserk, gross, over-inked, brutal layout, bullhorn headlines. This is what New York deserved and would get.” The book in question, “,” was sensational when it appeared, in 1956, in France–it was too unconventional for any American publisher to touch.
Klein’s New York book wouldn’t have happened had he not been enticed back from Paris by the art director Alexander Liberman, who asked the artist to join his staff at, in 1954. Untrained as a photographer, Klein fell back on bravado and an innate sense of design, and in between shooting still-lifes for the magazine, he hit the streets and improvised. When it came time to collect his work into a book, he knew what he didn’t want to do.
Klein, now ninety-four and living in Paris, has continued to publish books of new and retooled material, but much of his subsequent work was in filmmaking, including, once he left, the spot-on fashion-world satire “Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?” and an in-your-face documentary on Muhammad Ali , whose irrepressible, poetic exaggeration made him a perfect Klein subject. Excerpts of both films are screening at I.C.P. alongside groups of Klein’s later photographic work, much of it in screaming color.
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