Horst Portraits. 60 Years of Style - Softcover

Robin Muir

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855143259 ISBN 13: 9781855143258

Publisher: National Portrait Gallery, 2001

Synopsis

This work celebrates the extraordinary portraits created by one of the great master photographers of the 20th century. In a style that personifies glamour and high fashion, Horst P. Horst's photographs conduct the viewer into a world of painters, writers, musicians, designers and royalty. In his 60-year career, much of it working for American, British and French "Vogue" and its sister publication "House and Garden", Horst's distinguished portfolio of luminaries included Noel Coward, Coco Chanel, Marlene Dietrich, Steve McQueen, Salvador Dali and Katharine Hepburn. This book showcases Horst's talents as a portrait photographer and provides a resource for those studying his work.

About this title

About the Author:

Terence Pepper is Curator of Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery. His previous publications include monographs on Norman Parkinson, Lewis Morley and Dorothy Wilding. He is also the author of The Man Who Shot Garbo: The Photographs of Clarence Sinclair Bull, Limelight: Photographs by James Abbe and High Society: Photographs 1897-1914. Robin Muir is a freelance curator and writer on photography. A former Picture Editor for Vogue, he is a regular contributor to Russian Vogue and the Independent magazine. His books include John Deakin Photographs, Clifford Coffin: Photographs from Vogue 1944-54, You Are Here: The London Photographs of Michael Cooper, and most recently a complete study of the photographs of Terence Donovan.

Review:

'Horst P. Horst was the Mario Testino of his day.' In Style magazine; 'I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity.' Horst P. Horst

About this edition

• Publisher: National Portrait Gallery
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1855143259
• ISBN 13: 9781855143258
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212
• Editor: Terence Pepper