2017 edition of Horst: Photographer of Style

Large format hardback in fine condition

Some very minor wear to boards

Some very slight toning to extremities of pages 

Otherwise, pages clean, binding firm 

About

Horst: Photographer of Style is the definitive museum catalogue originally published to accompany the Victoria and Albert Museum’s major exhibition on Horst P. Horst in 2014. Edited by Susanna Brown, it presents Horst’s work as a coherent artistic practice that moves fluently between fashion, portraiture, still life, nude studies, and staged modernist tableaux. The book situates his images within the cultures that shaped them—interwar Paris, Condé Nast editorial worlds, theatre and design circles, and the shift toward postwar glamour—while foregrounding the formal intelligence of his photography: sculptural lighting, precise geometry, and an ability to make artifice feel inevitable. Substantial essays (including a contribution by Anna Wintour), rich plate sections, and reference material make it both an accessible introduction and a serious curatorial resource.