From the portfolio "New York 54/55": Elsa Maxwell's Toy Ball. March 1955
ポートフォリオ“ニューヨーク54/55”より（1978年）：エルサ・マックスウェルのトイ・ボール、1955年3月
- Birth Year
- 1928
- Death Year
- 2022
- Date
- -
- Technique, Material, Format
- gelatin silver print
- Dimension
- 19.7 x 30.0 cm
- Category
- Photograph or Moving Image by ForeignPhotographer/Artist
- Inventory Number
- 85-PHF-053-12
With subjects that are blurred and unclear, compositions that show only a part of the whole, and prints that exaggerate the contrast between black and white, William Klein’s New York series seems to capture the speed and excitement of the metropolis in the mid-1950s. On the other hand, look closely at his subjects—young people dancing in the streets, boys in Harlem, young gangsters with guns, crowds on Fifth Avenue, and advertisements posted on external walls—and one gets a sense of the city’s many varied lived experiences, including violence and loneliness. One of the first to take up such subject matter, which was later pursued in Pop Art and by other artists, Klein began examining the new relationships between art and postwar society.
(OSAWA Sayoko)