Horst, Salute to the Thirties, Signed by Horst
[Signed by Horst P. Horst] Horst. Salute to the Thirties. First Edition. 1971. Book is in very good condition; dust jacket is in good plus condition—jacket shows chips, fraying, and edge tears. Book is warmly inscribed, "To Rosalind, with love, Horst." Foreword by Janet Flanner. Photographs by Horst and George Hoyningen-Huene. Notes on the plates by Valentine Lawford.
This is a love letter to the decade when glamour knew how to hold a pose. Its pages gather an astonishing cast of modern culture and high style—Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Marlene Dietrich, the Duchess of Windsor, Chanel, Elsie de Wolfe, Josephine Baker, Babe Paley, and others. The book itself feels like an artifact from the world it celebrates—heavy paper, photogravure plates, and an atmosphere of black satin, white gloves, studio lights, and perfect cigarettes. Both a portrait album and a period spell, it makes the case that the 1930s were not merely the epitome of glamour but the invention of glamour itself.
"The sight of young men and women even now lining up to see a revival of some movie of the Thirties confirms an old suspicion that in th end it is the human beings, not the theories, of any epoch that ultimately appeal and prevail.”
--Horst P. Horst