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»This is on the river in Moscow. 99
I didn’t think I’d get a Russian WILLIAM KLEIN
(* 1928)
girl to pose for me in a bikini, Bikini, Moscow 1959
but she was happy to do it. She
Gelatin silver print, printed in the
thought she was the centre of the 1990s
photograph but the wide-angle 25 × 34,3 cm (9.8 × 13.5 in)
Signed, dated and annotated by
lens captured her grandfather the photographer in ink on the
and grandmother too.« reverse
LITERATURE
William Klein, Moscow, New York
William Klein 1964, s. p; William Klein, exhibiti-
on catalogue Centre Pompidou,
Paris 2005, p. 110; William Klein,
Photo poche, Paris 1985, pl. 32;
William Klein: ABC, London 2012,
p. 40–41.
€ 2.400 / € 4.000–5.000
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