Summary: We have once again sifted through the bulky steel filing cabinets in the SFMOMA offices to bring you another unpublished artist talk from our vast archive of cassette tapes, recordings of public programs spanning more than 30 years. The museum has embarked on a project to digitize these recordings and publish them online. This episode of SFMOMA Artcasts shares, unedited and in its entirety, an artist talk by William Klein that was given in January 1995 in conjunction with the exhibition William Klein New York 1954-1955 at SFMOMA. Klein describes the ways the dynamic compositions of his photographs capture the raw energy of life in cities such as New York, Paris, and Tokyo. He offers entertaining anecdotes about his experimental techniques and his gradual transitions from painting to photography to film. To hear more archival SFMOMA public programs, visit our SoundCloud page at soundcloud.com/SFMOMA, where new selections are being uploaded regularly.
