KLEIN, WILLIAM (1928- ) Portfolio titled "William Klein New York 54/55," with 12 gritty photographs of New York City. Silver prints, sizes ranging from approximately 9x12 to 7 3/4x11 3/4 inches (22.9x30.5 to 19.7x29.8 cm.), and the reverse, each with Klein's signature, the portfolio title, and edition number E.A. V, in pencil, on verso; each print is individually matted with the titles, in pencil, below the image on the undermat. Folio-size black cloth clamshell box; the colophon, also with Klein's signature and the edition number E.A. V (artist's proof), in pencil; contents loose as issued. 1954-1955; printed 1978
"Dance in Brooklyn, September 1954" "Spanish Harlem, September 1954" "Upper Broadway, October 1954" "57th Street, November 1954" "Horn & Hardart's, November 1954" "5th Avenue, November 1954" "Xmas, Macy's, December 1954" "First Avenue, January 1955" "Near the docks, January 1955" "Sweeney's, 3rd Avenue, February 1955" "St. Patrick's Day, March 1955" "Elsa Maxwell's Toy Ball, March 1955." From a Private Collection, New York.
