ICP Awards
William Klein has been honored with the 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award by the New York-based International Center for Photography.
Now in their 23rd year, the ICP's Infinity Awards are widely recognized as Americas premier recognition for excellence in photography.
Klein, is credited with influencing visual imagery in Europe as well as the US for more than half a century.
In the 1950s and 1960s he introduced a different perspective on street photography, eschewing careful focusing and framing for grainy, distorted wide-angle shots captured on fast film.
His important photography work, best exemplified by his book Life Is Good and Good for You in New York: Trance Witness Revels was supplemented by groundbreaking work in film.
The awards will be presented in May in New York City.