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Sometimes watching his Polaroids causes awkwardness a feeling of intrusion into someone's intimacy. But now decades later Davide looks at us he makes funny faces kisses his girlfriend he left but retained his presence in this world. Horst P. Horst is a classic of glamor portraiture and the god of fashion photography. His legacy is a world of detached and tempting beauty albeit fictional and inaccessible but perfect as befits a beautiful figment of the imagination. Horst Paul Albert Bormann was born in Germany but worked mainly in Paris and New York. Intending to become an architect he studied in the French capital with the pioneer of modernism Le Corbusier. Subsequently he preferred photography to architecture but studying architecture endowed Horst with invaluable qualities patience attention to detail and striving for perfection. This helped with photo shoots that could take several days to complete.
The photographer's career began at the very beginning of the s after e-commerce photo editing meeting Georgy GoyningenHühne. Under the mentorship of an older comrade Horst became the chief photographer of French Vogue where he was called the alchemist of photography. Already the December issue of the edition in was decorated with a photograph of Horst in which a model in black velvet advertised a bottle of perfume. His early work was deeply influenced by the idealized beauty of classical antiquity and a fascination with surrealism. Horst was so fascinated by the Greek canons of bodily attractiveness that he sent models to the Louvre to be imbued with the plasticity and graceful grace of ancient sculptures. In Horst created one of his most famous works the Mainbocher Corset. This image of a woman from the back in a corset combines elegance and fragility at the same time. It has become a kind of standard for of mysterious sensuality and one of the iconic photographs of the twentieth century.
Corset is the last work that Horst did in Paris before leaving a few weeks before the start of the war. Leaving the studio at in the morning I returned home took my bags and left France… This photo is special to me it is the essence of that moment. While I was working on it I did not stop thinking about everything that I left behind Horst recalled. Overseas in New York he changed his surname Bormann to Horst so as not to be associated with the Nazis and built a successful career. In the postwar period the fashion industry flourished and Horst was in demand more than ever. The advent of lighter cameras has made it possible for editorial photographers to go outside and shoot in urban locations. Horst still produced his best photographs in a tightly controlled environment in the studio where he meticulously built composition and lighting.
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發表於 2022-10-29 14:13:45