Horst P. Horst. Fotografie 1931-1984

Exhibition catalog. Published in an extremely small and limited print run as a paperback original only. An elegant production by Anthony Mathews: Regular-sized volume format. Glossy pictorial softcovers, as issued. Photographs by Horst. Essays by Paul Ewing and Nancy Hall-Duncan. The texts are in Italian translations. Brief Biography appended at the end. Without DJ, as issued. Published on the occasion of the retrospective exhibition held at the Centro di Documentazione di Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, Italy in 1985. The exhibition was in conjunction with the International Center of Photography New York. Presents an overview of the great photographer’s fifty-year body of work, some of his finest and most representative pictures over a lifetime of indefatigable work, immense success and international fame. The most famous disciple and lifetime companion of George Hoyningen-Huene (perhaps the single most important and influential lifestyle and fashion photographer of the 20th century), Horst quickly became world-famous as the man who refined and perfected the Vogue look. Horst was a restless photographer, who tried his hand at just about everything: Fashion, still life, male and female nudes, celebrity portraits, travel and lifestyle and even landmark and architecture. He will be remembered for having produced several truly stunning masterpieces in all of them. Among the portraits he took, the list is staggering and surely owes in part to the fact that he was himself a handsome and charming man of the world: Lisa Fonssagrives, Joan Crawford, Luchino Visconti, Andy Warhol, Diana Vreeland (her most famous picture), Bruce Weber, Karl Lagerfeld, Calvin Klein and Yves Saint Laurent, a remarkable confluence of the leading figures in the arts, literature, fashion and photography, high society and mass culture. At his very best, Horst was simply the best. A brilliant overview. © 2005, ModernRare.com