HORST P. HORST, one
of few internationally known master photographers, has helped to
shape all modern fashion and portrait photography. Born in Weissenfels
near Weimar in 1906, Horst developed his sensibility in response
to the major avant-garde movements of the 1920s - Bauhaus, Neue
Sachlichkeit, Art Deco - and to the heady social climate of Paris
in the 1930s. Here, the legendary Geoge Hoyningen-Huene, Baltic
baron and VOGUE photographer, introduced him to the fashionable
beau monde of artists, actors, couturiers, aristocrats and intellectuals.
Horst succeeded Hoyningen-Huene at VOGUE in 1935, and quickly
became world famous for his extravagant fashion plates, exquisite
still lifes and nudes, and especially for his renowned portraits
of such luminaries as Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, and Coco Chanel.
When he left France for New York in 1939, Horst was already among
the elite of VOGUE photographers.
-Martin Kazmaier, HORST, Sixty Years of Photography
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