Horst, His Work and His World, Signed by Horst
[Signed by Horst and Valentine Lawford] Horst, Horst P. Horst, His Work and His World. First Edition. 1984. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition. Book is signed by both authors (Horst and Valentine Lawford) on the half title page.
Horst P. Horst spent much of the twentieth century capturing glamour, but his true subject was elegance. This handsome retrospective traces his remarkable career from his early association with Le Corbusier and Baron George Hoyningen-Huene to his position as one of Vogue‘s most influential photographers. The great couturiers are all here—Mainbocher, Chanel, Schiaparelli, Balenciaga, Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent—but so too is the sophisticated world that Horst helped create and record. Valentine Lawford’s commentary, drawn in part from Horst’s own recollections, offers an unusually candid portrait of the man behind the camera and the world in front of it.
“Fashion is an expression of the times. Elegance is something else again.”
--Horst