William Klein was born in Manhattan on April 19, 1926. His father was a tailor who owned a clothing store but lost it in the 1929 stock market crash; his mother was a homemaker.

William Klein, American photographer, in front of photos of the series New York at the photo exhibition Retrospective Photographs and Films at the museum for photographie C/O Galerie in Berlin ...

Photographer, filmmaker, painter and graphic designer William Klein at a press event in Paris in 2005. Klein died Saturday at age 96. Pierre Verdy/AFP via Getty Images hide caption ...

The photographer, filmmaker and fearless multi-disciplinary artist William Klein died on 10 September at his home in Paris. He was 96. His death was confirmed by Howard Greenberg Gallery in New ...

Legendary street and fashion photographer William Klein has died in Paris, aged 96, his son said in a statement to French news agency AFP on Monday.

William Klein, one of the pioneering fathers of street photography, once an unhappy child of 1950s Manhattan who became a much-loved artist, has died at the age of 96 in Paris. ‘I came from the ...

It clocks in at 600 works. The show’s curator, David Campany, says “artists like Klein, who ranged freely and avoided specialism, are key to understanding the culture of the last century.” Born at New ...

US photographer William Klein takes pictures during an exposition named "William Klein Rome photos - 1956/1960 ", in the Rome's Trajan Market on April 13, 2010. Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images ...

Photographer William Klein, who revolutionized fashion and street photography in the late 20th century with gritty images of metropolitan life in New York, Paris and Rome dies aged 96.

US photographer William Klein takes pictures during an exposition named "William Klein Rome photos - 1956/1960 ", in the Rome's Trajan Market on April 13, 2010. Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images ...