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WILLIAM KLEIN (1928- )
Portfolio entitled
NewYork 54/55.
With 12 (of 12) stirring photographs of NewYork scenes. Silver
prints, each 11
1
/
2
x8
5
/
8
inches (29.2x21.9 cm.), and the reverse, each with Klein’s signature, set number
16, and the portfolio title, in pencil, on verso; each hinge-mounted in individual mats with the title,
in pencil, below the image. Elephant folio-sized clamshell box with the stamped title; with Klein’s
signature and edition number 16, in pencil, on the colophon; contents loose as issued.
ONE OF AN
EDITION OF
60
COPIES
. Paris:Atelier J.M. Bustamante/Bernard Saint-Genès, 1954-55; printed 1978
[12,000/18,000]
Dance in Brooklyn, 1954 * Spanish Harlem, 1954 * Upper Broadway, 1954 * 57th Street, 1954 * Horn
& Hardart’s, 1954 * 5th Avenue, 1954 * Xmas, Macy’s, 1954 * First Avenue, 1955 * Near the Docks,
1955 * Sweeney’s, 3rd Avenue, 1955 * St. Patrick’s Day, 1955 * Elsa Maxwell’s Toy Ball, 1955.