This photograph, the back of a woman wearing an unraveling corset, is representative of the elegance and fragility of beauty in the face of destruction. Shot the night he fled Europe at the invasion of the German army into France. In 1939, Horst made one of his most famous works, Mainboucher Corset. He made a large body of iconic fashion photography. Horst photographed such celebrities as Greta Garbo, Coco Chanel, Joan Crawford, and Katherine Hepburn. He incorporated the influence that modernism and surrealism had on the art world into his photographs. By 1931, Horst was shooting for French Vogue and then British Vogue in 1932, thanks to art director Mehemed Agha. Hoyningen-Huene further sharpened his vision and mentored him. 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. While in Paris, he turned from architecture to photography, which he learned from George Hoyningen-Huene, a fashion photographer working for Vogue. 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. He produced outstanding, elegant work that made him one of the most influential fashion photographers of the mid-20th century.īorn Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann, in 1906 in Germany, Horst studied architecture early on. Horst was a pioneer of the genre now known as classic fashion photography.
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