Artist Reference – William Klein
William Klein is a photographer whose work has spanned decades. He has worked with many different subjects and has captured all different kinds of scenes from photojournalism to fashion and even some street photography. Due to the time that he was working in he shot almost all black and white and on film. Recently he has taken a look back at some of his most famous images and the contact sheets that go with them, he has then painted over the image, similarly to how people would mark contact sheets to identify good images and poor images, there is not much reasoning behind way he has done this further than:
“The idea for the colour and graphics comes from the red lines
photographers put around their choices on a contact sheet.”
The massive size of these images once blow up makes them really impressive and striking, the contrasting colours really help to accentuate and frame the images and makes them really standout. I really like this idea and I think that I am going to employ this for the presentation of my final project.
https://petapixel.com/2011/08/31/the-stories-behind-photographer-william-kleins-contact-sheets/