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...Americans, William Klein is the least palpable of their great photographers, like one of the ectoplasmic figures in his own blurry street shots. Nowadays every history of photography gives his wild pictures of the early 1950s their due. But though born in New York City, Klein, 58, has lived in Paris since 1948, when he arrived packing the camera he won in a G.I. poker game. Living abroad made him less of a presence in the camera circles of his native country. So did the truculent novelty of his early work. Klein's debut volume of New York street photography...
...hardly helped matters that in 1965 he quit picture taking for nearly 15 years to make films, mostly documentaries. With Klein threatening to become the missing link of American photography, the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts has come to the rescue with a retrospective of his work, on view through April 5. There are tentative plans for it to travel to other cities, and it should, to spread the word again that Klein was crucial to the camera world's postwar taste for more offbeat and haphazard imagery; he helped set the mood from which photographers like Garry Winogrand...
...Klein came to photography by way of painting, having studied briefly with Fernand Leger. Once he turned to the camera, the former sociology major from New York's City College showed a deep instinct for the urban demotic, with its links to the police blotter, the tabloid and the B movie. With money earned by doing Vogue fashion spreads in France, he made a picture-taking trip to New York in 1954, equipped with both the expatriate's eye for its psychic stresses and the native's complicity in them. Without resorting to the bizarre, he got the profoundly unsettled...
...crazies start to crowd Budge and Wyatt's room. What exactly is this "Day Room"? One nurse describes it as a place "where they watch daytime television and throw food." But is she to be believed? She also states that the Day Room is in the "Arno Klein Memorial Wing," but what and where is that? Is Budge to be trusted? Finally, is Wyatt--Mister Normal--to be trusted...
...scene and characters, but not the cast, are completely different. A group of people gradually gather in a motel room to await the arrival and performance of the Arno Klein Theatre troupe. Lynette (Harriet Harris) and Gary (Nestor Serrano) have driven for 300 miles just to see them. But this is not your usual motel room. It soon becomes clear that this is the mysterious "Day Room," mentioned in the first act. DeLillo is in hot pursuit of as much theatrical symmetry as he can force down the audience's throat...