William Klein

William Klein left New York for Paris after World War II service, studied painting with Fernand Léger, and returned to New York in 1954 to make a book of photographs - Life Is Good and Good for You in New York (1956) - that used wide-angle distortion, motion blur, and the confrontational close-up to produce images that violated almost every convention of fine-art photography. He subsequently made similarly transgressive books on Rome, Moscow, and Tokyo before moving into fashion photography at Vogue and feature filmmaking.