'The Many Lives Of William Klein'

This documentary looked into the life of photogrpaher William Klein. During his career he worked on both photographic projects and films, including the documentary on professional boxer Mohammed Ali.
The documentary looked into both his career and personal life in order to show the viewer William Klein's life in a great amount of depth. 

 In the documentary, we were told that Klein used to live in New York, where he did the majority of his photographic work, before moving to Atlanta where he currently resides.
His trademark in most of his work is the use of the colours red and black, and he was originally very interested in creating abstract images.

However, later on in his career, he became interested in street photography, with the majority of his subjects being people (portraiture). He produced a book, with the title 'New York 1954-1955', which was considered to be massively influencial, as no other photographer had produced a book with such a strange and distinctive style before.
Later on in his career, he was interested in trying to photograph the rise in consumerism and advertising in New York and Brooklyn. He even created a movie to really try and show this change, which was massively influencial and popular.

He continued with his career whilst working for Vogue, who introduced him to fashion photography. It was when he started producing fashion images that his photographic style began to change, he started using different lenses and different techniques, with these new images looking very different to those from his street photography portfolio. He was considered to be a 'fashion pioneer', by being one of the first photographers who asked their model to interact with the scene instead of just using them as a 'clothes horse'.

However, it became clear that Klein was not overly fond of fashion photography, as in portraiture and street photography, you are capturing a moment in time which can't be controlled, whereas with fashion, it's set up with assistants etc.
I found this documentary to be very interesting, and I think Klein is a massively influential and interesting photographer, whose work I will be investigating and exploring in the near future.