Frank Horvat Boeken

A collection of classic photographs of one of the world's leading photographers.

Frank Horvat (*1928 in Abbazia, today Opatija, Croatia), a pioneering fashion photographer and one of the first professional photographers to use Photoshop, can meanwhile look back at around seventy years of activity and a dazzling career. The grand seigneur now allows us very personal insight into his private life: the autobiography in pictures reveals personal moments from all phases of his life. We encounter the great themes of humankind, such as birth and death, are witness to his ability to play, and to handle animals, we see his family, his friends. They are everyday images like anyone could have assembled in an album. However, there is one slight difference: a master was clearly at work here early on, the quality of the photographs speaks for itself. In the appendix, Horvat comments, in most cases at length, on each of the chronologically ordered pictures. FRANK HORVAT (*1928, Opatija) grew up in Italy and studied at the Brera Academy in Milan. His special eye made him a renowned photojournalist and a famous fashion photographer. He was one of the first to turn to digital photography. His publications include Please Don't Smile (2015) and Photographic Autobiography (2016).

Frank Horvat débute comme reporter-photographe. Il devient rapidement photographe de mode il est le premier à mélanger les genres en réalisant des photographies de mannequins dans la rue à l'aide d'un appareil 24 x 36 - ce qui lui vaut un succès immédiat. Entre 1952 et 1962, il vit alternativement à Londres et à Paris, et photographie les deux villes avec passion et originalité. Ses images, sensibles, élégantes, souvent pleines d'ironie et de séduction, conservent tout leur charme et toute leur verve. A travers les deux capitales, on suit le parcours d'un Jeune homme fasciné par la vie urbaine, son décor et ses acteurs. Frank Horvat began his career as a photojournalist. Soon, however, he started working in fashion photography. Taken in the street using a 24 x 36 camera, his images of models were the first to combine realism and artifice and won him immediate success. From 1952-1962, Horvat lived between London and Paris, building up a passionate and Original photographic record of the two cities. His images from this period are sensitive and elegant, often richly ironic or seductive. Forty years later, they have lost none of their charm and verve. Through these two capitals, we follow in the footsteps of a young man fascinated by urban life and its multiple facets and actors.