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| Muriel Maxwell, American Vogue cover, 1 July 1939 © Condé Nast / Horst Estate |
‘Fashion is an expression of the times. Elegance is something else again.’ Horst, 1984
Horst P. Horst is often credited as one of the
greatest photographers of all time, side by side with Richard Avedon and
Irving Penn. His greatness is divinely highlighted on V&A’s first
retrospective of the photographer, “Horst: Photographer of Style”, opens
from the 6th of September.
The exhibition builds a timeline across Horst’s long career – he was
an active photographer for over 60 years – adding curiosity drops of his
personal life (did you know, for instance, that he worked in Paris as
an apprentice to Le Corbusier) and backstories of some of the shoots.
Notebooks, drawings, scrapbooks and letters also accompany the show, and
even some of his cameras – an epic moment for analogue lovers such as
ourselves.
