Charles Cowles Gallery - Current Exhibition

William Klein

April 28 - May 26, 2001

The Charles Cowles Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of WILLIAM KLEIN's Painted Contacts 1996-2001. In this body of work bold color and stirring imagery combine to bring a new vibrancy to KLEIN's iconic photographs. Trained as a painter, KLEIN approached photography with "…no taboos: blur, grain, contrast, cockeyed framing, accidents, whatever happens." Each piece is made unique by his distinctive strokes of primary colors in enamel paint.

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Selected Works in the Exhibition (click on the image for more detail):


Students in Clown Make-up Demonstrating, Paris, 1995		Concert Rolling Stones, Paris, 1982

Club Allegro Fortissimo, Paris, 1990		Backstage, Alaia and Hoods, Paris, 1987

Gun 1, New York, 1955		Gang, L.A., 1999

School Out, Dakar, 1963		Dance in Brooklyn, New York, 1955