Enter PhotographyĪfter meeting George Hoyningen-Huene, who at the time, was established as the French capital’s leading portrait and fashion photographer, Horst decided to pursue photography instead. While there he wrote to the architect Le Corbusier and was invited to be a student-apprentice in Paris in the late 1920s. He returned to study at Hamburg’s Kunstgewerbeschule, a well-known school of applied arts under the direction of Walter Gropius. After his education at the Schulpforta, followed by a short period in Switzerland and Capri, he was sent by his parents to work for a Hamburg export company. Horst was born in 1906 in Weissenfels-an-der-Saale in Germany, the son of a merchant. Genre: Fashion, Portrait, Commercial, Nude, Lifestyle, Still Life, Architectureīorn: Aug– Weißenfels-an-der-Saale, Germanyĭied: Novem(aged 93) – Florida, United States Horst Biography Horst QuotesĮditor note: This article took a week to research and write – sharing takes just a couple of minutes and doesn’t cost anything. If you enjoy this article or find it helpful then we would be grateful if you could share Photogpedia through the usual channels (websites, forums, social media, etc). The elegance of his photographs… took you to another place, very beautifully… the untouchable quality of the people is really interesting as it gives you something of a distance… it’s like seeing somebody from another world… and you wonder who that person is and you really want to know that person and really want to fall in love with that person. Fashion photographers Herb Ritts, Tim Walker, Steven Meisel and Bruce Weber have all reimagined Horst’s pictures and acknowledged his influence. Working mainly in Paris and New York, his photographs graced the pages and covers of Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, Queen and House and Garden from the 1930s onwards and he received the Master of Photography award in 1996.įor many photographers, Horst’s work remains the gold standard. He was a master of light, composition and atmospheric illusion, and his pioneering work in the 1930s helped shape modern-day fashion and portrait photography.īest known for his glamorous images of women and fashion, Horst meticulously posed his models, focusing on form and mystery, to create iconic images that transcend fashion and time. During that time, the name ‘Horst’ became synonymous with the use of dramatic lighting, elegance and atmospheric style. Horst’s career spanned more than sixty years between 19. In this article, we will be looking at the life and career of one of the great master photographers of twentieth-century photography, Horst P.
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