William Klein & David Campany

Museum of Art & Design, New York, March 13, 2013

William Klein and David Campany in conversation at the Museum of Art & Design, New York. March 13, 2013.

A conversation spanning William Klein’s sixty-year career, taking in abstract painting under Fernand Léger in Paris; early exhibitions in Milan; shooting fashion for Vogue; street photography in New York, Rome, Tokyo and Moscow; documentaries on Muhammad Ali and Eldridge Cleaver; and his feature films including Who Are You, Polly Magoo?, Mister Freedom and The Model Couple.

Watch here:

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMkZZkk9zqE]

A partial transcript of this conversation appears in FOAM magazine n.37, an issue dedicated to Klein’s work:

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Klein Campany conversation FOAM title page

Klein Campany FOAM magazine page spread

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And in C/O Berlin Newspaper no. 14, 2017