Horst, Salute to the Thirties, Signed by Horst
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[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.
If there was any doubt that the 1930s were the most glamorous decade of the 20th Century, this gorgeous book of photographs puts the question to rest. Its subjects include many of those that made the 1930s so remarkable—Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Marlene Dietrich, the Duchess of Windsor, Chanel, Elsie de Wolfe, Josephine Baker, Babe Paley, et al. And, with its heavy paper stock and photogravure plates, even the product quality of the book evokes that era.
"When one took a portrait photograph [in the thirties], one had to make anything between 2-second and 10-second exposures--during which even the loveliest smile could freeze and the lithest figure turn to stone. Light meters had not yet been invented."
--Horst P. Horst
If there was any doubt that the 1930s were the most glamorous decade of the 20th Century, this gorgeous book of photographs puts the question to rest. Its subjects include many of those that made the 1930s so remarkable—Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Marlene Dietrich, the Duchess of Windsor, Chanel, Elsie de Wolfe, Josephine Baker, Babe Paley, et al. And, with its heavy paper stock and photogravure plates, even the product quality of the book evokes that era.
"When one took a portrait photograph [in the thirties], one had to make anything between 2-second and 10-second exposures--during which even the loveliest smile could freeze and the lithest figure turn to stone. Light meters had not yet been invented."
--Horst P. Horst
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