Rome: The City and Its People.

KLEIN, William.

$1,850.00

Item Number: 142864

New York: The Viking Press, 1959.

First edition of the second volume in Klein’s acclaimed series of “city” books. Quarto, original cloth, illustrated with photographs. Signed by the photographer on the half-title page, “Rome Great Rome William Klein.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket.

According to Fellini, "this is the best Rome there is and Klein is the best photographer there is. He knows Rome like a book and this is it." "Cheesy, delirious, pure Pop art," William Klein's Rome continues the "raw, kinetic and utterly original" innovations of Life is Good (1956) (Roth, 140-41). His genius resides in an unerring ability to remind "us that much great, serious art is often about play, achieved simply by experimenting with the possibilities of the material. Forget trance and witness-the revels are the thing" (Parr & Badger I:243). Rome is the second volume in Klein's "city" series, "four books of photography which shook the very roots of this medium's young tradition filled with raw, grainy, swirling yet abrupt images, which visually describe these cities in a manner never previously seen before" (Christian Science Monitor).