Frank Horvat, one of the greatest fashion photographers in the world. He helped elevate the medium to art and, with his thoughtful photographs, completely replaced the way we look at fashion.
Today, his most recent masterpieces are presented in a solo exhibition at the Leica Galerie Wetzlar, which opens on February 3 and will be open until April 30 in Wetzlar, Germany. taking his portraits.
The exhibition highlights the fashion photography of the photographer who has had a career of 70 years. She showed the world how fashion photography was more than a way to sell handbags and noted that: “Without stories to tell, fashion would never have interested me. “” he said in an interview.
Horvat is known for his fashion photography, which has been published in Vogue, Elle and Harper’s Bazaar. Based in Paris, he captured the city in all its romantic splendor, from foggy night scenes to unconventional shots of the Eiffel Tower.
And yes, he owned a Leica camera and brought the logo through his friend and fellow photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (who now has his own museum of the same call in Paris).
Horvat was born in Croatia, lived in Italy and moved to Paris in 1955. He began racing as a fashion photographer in 1957, photographing for fashion magazines in Paris, London and New York, until 1962. He worked on black-and-white, black-and-white films, and some of his most productive images were captured at the time, such as his photos of Coco Chanel, Jean Cocteau, and Yves Saint Laurent.
After working as an advertising photographer, he began working on photo books, such as New York Up And Down, a tribute to the city’s street life, and Please Don’t Smile, which was published in 2015.
Not only did he tell the styles to smile in chorus, but he also told them to be themselves. “Later, when there was this kind of herb, the woman next door, I didn’t like it anymore, because it had also become a stereotype,” he said. he said in a 2015 interview. ” I laugh at anything that only I see. I’m not interested in popping up anything that the style needs to show.
The photographer of Italian origin Frank Horvat poses at the opening of his exhibition “A Trip Through AArray. . [ ] Mind (The iPad Exhibition)” at the Hiltawsky Gallery in Berlin on March 15, 2012. The exhibition features antique prints of Horvat’s paintings from the 1950s until recently. The exhibition also features Horvat’s iPad app “Horvatland,” which includes two thousand representative photographs from the photographer’s archives. AFP PHOTO/JOHN MACDOUGALL (Photo credit: JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images)