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»This is on the river in Moscow. I didn’t think

I’d get a Russian girl to pose for me in a bikini,
but she was happy to do it. She thought she
was the centre of the photograph but the
wide-angle lens captured her grandfather and
grandmother too.« (William Klein)

Moskau war die dritte Stadt nach New York (1956) und After New York (1956) and Rome (1959), Moscow became
Rom (1959), der William Klein ein Städteporträt widmete. the third city to which William Klein dedicated a portrait.
Klein machte die meisten seiner Moskauer Aufnahmen Klein took most of his Moscow pictures in 1959, at the
1959 am Höhepunkt des Kalten Krieges. »At the time, I height of the Cold War. »At the time, I wanted to make a
wanted to make a book on Moscow and, as an American book on Moscow, and, as an American during the Cold
during the Cold War, I thought I’d encounter some War, I thought I’d encounter some problems. I was wrong,
problems. I was wrong, I never ran into any trouble. I never ran into any trouble. People were not used to
People were not used to seeing someone with a camera seeing someone with a camera walking amongst them,«
walking amongst them«, erinnert sich der Fotograf. the photographer remembered.

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