William Klein, an American expatriate photographer whose often frenetic and sometimes blurred images of urban street life and modern fashion were wildly innovative while conveying the pointed social criticism of a self-declared outsider, died Sept. 10 in Paris. He was 96.

His nephew Larry Reichman confirmed his death but did not cite a cause.

From his earliest years, Mr. Klein said, he was attuned to seeing the world as a perpetual foreigner. He grew up in Depression-era Manhattan, a Jewish boy in a largely Irish neighborhood where he endured poverty and antisemitic bullying. Self-reliance and a quick eye for his surroundings were means to survival — and so was art. At 12, he began spending weekends roaming the Museum of Modern Art, where his own work would one day be displayed...

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