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Photographer William Klein, famous for street scenes but also fashion, has died

The influential American-born photographer, filmmaker, painter and graphic designer died Saturday in his adopted city of Paris.
Photographer, filmmaker, painter and graphic designer William Klein at a press event in Paris in 2005. Klein died Saturday at age 96.

One of William Klein's early mentors, artist Fernand Leger, told him: "Get out of the galleries. Look at buildings; go out onto the street." That is exactly what Klein did — and

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