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Oct 23, 2015 · A photographer for Vogue from 1931, Horst P. Horst (née Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann—he changed his name when he gained American citizenship in 1943) captured some of the most recognizable fashion images of the early 20th century, along with portraits of dozens of notable society and creative figures—Coco Chanel, Marlene Dietrich, Cole Porter, the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Cy Twombly ...
Apr 2, 2012 · The German photographer Horst — who was born with Horst as a first name and legally changed his full name to Horst P. Horst later in life — captured an era of European and American glamour on film. His black-and-white portraits of 20th century icons, from Coco Chanel and Rita Hayworth to Andy Warhol and Jackie Kennedy, are known for their ...
Sep 4, 2014 · His pictures graced the pages and covers of Vogue, Harpers and Queen and House and Garden from the 1930s onwards and he received the Master of Photography award in 1996. Horst died in Palm Beach ...
- Early Photographic Studios
- Séeberger Freres
- Horst P. Horst
- Jean Moral
- Lillian Bassman
- Jeanloup Sieff
- Bruce Weber
- Coreen Simpson
- Corinne Day
- Jason Evans
Photographic records of fashionable dress began to appear within a few years of photography’s invention in 1839. Initially, such photographs would have been produced for private clients, or used as references for the engravers who supplied fashion illustrations for the press. However, by the 1880s, with the advent of mechanical reproduction, images...
The Séeberger Frères (active 1909–1975) began working as photojournalists in the 1870s, photographing fashionable subjects on the streets of Paris, at society events such as horse races, and at seaside resorts. Often credited with the invention of fashion photography, their work mixed the formal refinement of studio photographs with a relaxed and s...
The work of Horst P. Horst (1906–1999) embodied the formal, studio-based aesthetic that dominated fashion photography until after World War II. Strongly influenced by the culture of ancient Greece, Horst’s work celebrated the lines and shapes of the body as a sculptural object. Between 1935 and the 1960s, Horst produced numerous groundbreaking colo...
By the 1930s, an aesthetic drawn from documentary imagery was making its way into fashion photography. Jean Moral (1906–1999) came from a documentary background, and, although he lacked formal training in photography, the visual language of early modernism, with its strong perspectives and unusual angles, came naturally to him. In 1933, he began ph...
Before taking up fashion photography, Lillian Bassman (1917–2017) worked as a graphic designer and assistant art director. She embraced an experimental approach to picture-making, and high-contrast, painterly images became her signature. Specializing in the photography of lingerie, her serene, sensual visual language evoked “a woman’s experience of...
One of the key photographers of the “new realist” movement of the 1960s, Jeanloup Sieff (1933–2000) had a playful, surreal style that was influenced by the films of Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman. Born in France, Sieff first took up photography as a teenager and, after a short stint with the Magnum Photos agency in the late 1950s, return...
Bruce Weber’s (born 1946) infamous image of Olympic pole-vaulter Tom Hintnaus—bronzed, sensual, and clad in nothing more than a pair of Calvin Klein briefs—was radical for its time. Displayed on an enormous billboard in Times Square in 1982, the image signaled a shift in Western cultural values and a growing acceptance of homoeroticism and male nud...
From an early age, Simpson had been drawn to individual and street style, and in 1982 she began her B-Boys series: “I wanted to photograph these kids and the whole break-dancing/rap genre,” she recalled. The B-Boys series explores the poise and self-possession of her subjects and the way that they expressed themselves through dress. On the other si...
Corinne Day (1962–2010) was a pioneer of the “grunge” aesthetic that dominated fashion photography throughout the 1990s. Shot in her signature lo-fi, documentary style, Day’s photographs often featured her friends and acquaintances posing makeup-free in dingy surroundings, casually styled in their own clothing. As Day remarked, “I never thought abo...
“I was interested in the sociopolitical implication of making a fashion editorial that only featured black faces,” recalls Jason Evans (born 1968). Published in i-D in 1991, Strictlycombined cultural perceptions of black youth and white suburbia with the nineteenth-century notion of the dandy. It was also driven by more serious questions about embe...
Mini Bio (1) Horst Fehlhaber was born on September 10, 1919 in Germany. He was a cinematographer, known for Schön ist die Welt (1957), Flucht in die Tropennacht (1957) and The Bridge (1959). He was previously married to Magda Schneider. He died on May 14, 2010 in Germany.
Aug 29, 2014 · Horst P. Horst received his first photo credit in 1931 for a French Vogue advertorial featuring a model clad in black velvet, holding a Klytia scent bottle. This was the start of the German-American photographer’s prolific career spanning six decades, in which his signature chiaroscuro style and imagination helped to define what we have come to know as The Fashion Photograph.
Paris' Musée Galliera welcomes Coming into Fashion: A century of photography at Condé Nast March 1- May 25, an exhibition that brings together work from more than 80 fashion photographers. Featuring luminaries including Richard Avedon, Horst P. Horst and Inez & Vinoodh, it's a comprehensive retrospective of some of the biggest names ever to see their ...
