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In the video, Horst P. Horst, 1981, made available on YouTube, we are presented with a rare interview with legendary photographer Horst P. Horst. Interviewed by Barbara Lee Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Horst answers questions for the television program Visions and Images: American Photographers on Photography. Horst reminisces while recalling studying u...

The video, Horst: Photographer of Styleavailable on YouTube, surveys curators, magazine editors, models, and people close to Horst who speak of his extraordinary talent and the significant influence of his work. The video also explores the archives at Conde Nast, where we see prints from Horst’s 60-year career as a photographer. This video, as well...

Born Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann in 1906 Germany, Horst P. Horst studied architecture and later apprenticed with modernist icon Le Corbusier in Paris. Through his studies Horst learned the principles of design and visual organization. Horst would rely on this knowledge and use its lessons in his photography. While in Paris, he traded architecture fo...

Fashion photographer, George Hoyningen-Huene, who further sharpened his vision, mentored him and by 1931 he was shooting for French Vogue and then in 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. At that time he also photographed suc...

In 1939, Horst made one of his most famous works, Mainbocher Corset. Shot the night he fled Europe, he packed up his equipment with many of his negatives and boarded the Normandie. After that, the German army invaded France. This photograph, that presented the back of a woman wearing an unraveling corset, is representative of the elegance and fragi...

That same year he moved to the United States and became a citizen changing his name to Horst P. Horst. He struggled to find work until he was hired by the fashion magazine Vogue. He immersed himself in the world of the New York glitterati, and, along with his fashion work, he became acclaimed for his portraits of the powerful and the famous. Horst’...

Horst’s classic photography would establish a new standard for elegance and style beginning in the 1960s. He would continue to work at Vogue and for many other magazines, including Life. Contemporaries such as Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Herb Ritts and Helmut Newtonhave all acknowledged learning from Horst. His work continues to exemplify the high...