Publisher/Hackelbury Fine Art

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"Imprint 2 Black and Light - Early Abstracts 1952" is a photobook by William Klein (1926-2022), a painter, photographer and film director from New York, USA. Born and raised in New York, he moved to Paris. There, he studied painting under Fernand Léger, but later turned to photography and film. "New York," published in 1956, is known as a masterpiece in the history of photobooks, but "it was groundbreaking in that it presented a new visual language that broke away from traditional ways of looking at things, by adopting techniques such as blurring, rough grain, telephoto and wide-angle lenses, and direct flashlights, and by using a method of strongly reflecting himself in the work." His subsequent photobooks, such as "Rome," "Moscow," and "Tokyo," have had a great influence to this day, and he was also active in fashion photography. This book was published at the time of the exhibition held at the HackelBury Fine Art Gallery in London in 2015, and is a collection of abstract photograms created in 1952 when Klein was still in his mid-20s. It is a valuable early work by a master who was challenging himself with experimental expression through photography at that time. Text by David Company. Limited to 1000 copies.