Despite an illustrious career spanning over sixty five years, photographer Horst P. horst will forever be linked with his portraiture of the inter war years. He began by working with George Hoyningen Huene at Vogue in 1932 and within a few years, had developed an unmistakable fashion style that fused elements of Greek sculptrure with the decadentelegance of the time. His early black and white images mixed subtle contrast with mood and sensetivity, achieved with carefully positioned lighting that could take three days to perfect.
" I like taking photgraphs, because i like life "he once said.
His work has remained timeless and iconographic as proved by the singer Madonna who copied his 1939 picture Mainbocher's Pink Satin Corset, for her Vogue video in 1989.
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