Horst P. Horst was a pioneer of the genre now known as classic fashion photography. He produced outstanding, elegant work that made him one of the most influential fashion photographers of the mid-20th century.
Born Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann, in 1906 in Germany, Horst studied architecture early on. He apprenticed with Le Corbusier in Paris and learned how to construct a picture plane, using the tenets of architectural practice like precision and calculation. While in Paris, he turned from architecture to photography, which he learned from George Hoyningen-Huene, a fashion photographer working for Vogue. This training carried over into his photographs resulting in Horst’s sessions sometimes lasting for days as he searched for the right blend of light and shadow. Hoyningen-Huene further sharpened his vision and mentored him. By 1931, Horst was shooting for French Vogue and then British Vogue in 1932, thanks to art director Mehemed Agha. He incorporated the influence that modernism and surrealism had on the art world into his photographs. Horst photographed such celebrities as Greta Garbo, Coco Chanel, Joan Crawford, and Katherine Hepburn. He made a large body of iconic fashion photography.
To this day, significant retrospectives are still held celebrating his influential work.
All prints are available as limited edition in size 18x24 inches or 22x30 inches unframed .
