Foam ended 2013 with a unique retrospective exhibition by William Klein. The entire museum has been dedicated to the life and work of this legendary photographer, filmmaker and designer.

The career of William Klein (b. 1928) spans more than sixty years and his work had a major influence on photography in the second half of the twentieth century. The exhibition gives ample coverage to Klein’s ground-breaking work in New York in the 1950s while also displaying work made in Rome, Moscow and Tokyo.

His work for Vogue shows that Klein was a great innovator in the field of fashion photography. Along with his early experiments with abstract photography, his large-scale, painted-on contact sheets made in recent decades are also on display at Foam.

In the Foam 3h library space, a selection of Klein’s feature films and documentaries are being shown. This unique William Klein retrospective is curated by Foam and can be seen exclusively in Amsterdam.