Frank Horvat was born in Abbazia, (the Italy, now Croatia) in 1928 and studied drawing at the Brera Academy in Milan. He started his career as a photojournalist but gained notoriety through his fashion photography in the fifties and sixties. His first photographic essay was published by the Italian magazine Epoca, in 1951.
He was the first to apply the 35mm camera and reportage techniques to fashion photography, creating a new and more realistic style that profoundly influenced the development of this field in England, France and the United States. Taken in the street, his images of models combined realism and artifice, and won him immediate success.
He started working for the American picture agency, Black Star, in 1953 and settled in Paris three years later. He joined the international photo agency, Magnum, as associate member, between 1959 and 1961. His photographs have appeared in leading European and American magazines including Life, Elle Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, Glamour and Jardin des Modes.
His work has been exhibited around the world and can be found in the permanent collections of numerous prestigious museums including Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris; Kunst-bibliothek, Berlin; Museum of Modern Art, New York; the George Eastman House, Rochester.
-Eelco Wolf, FRANK HORVAT, Fifty one photographs in black & white
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