Horst P Horst

Horst P horst
He was known as combining portraiture and fashion His style to
photography is still instantly recognisable. The first picture to carry
Horst credit line appeared in the December 1931 issue of French
vogue. Horst studied architecture in Hamburg while there he gave it
up for photography. He then produced some his most dynamic work
and work with interestingly new en plein air characteristics become
the most popular photography for his year. Horst died in 1999 at the
age 93.
He created his new unmistakeable style with the arrangement of
the furnishing, fabrics and lighting within his compositions creating
atmospheric silhouettes, he would set his models up and use nature
under artificial lights against plain or geometric backgrounds with
precision.
War was declared between America an Germany in 1941, Horst applied
for an American citizenship and he was called up for service this is
where he became an Army photographer which involved taking photos
of the US president Truman
Patterns from Nature Photographic Collage, about 1945.
This personal project Horst was struck by "their
revelation of the similarity of vegetable forms to
art forms like wrought iron and Gothic
architecture". Horst's interest was also linked to
the technical purity of 'photographic seeing', a
philosophy associated with the New Objectivity
movement of the 1920s and 1930s in which
practitioners took natural forms out of their
contexts and examined them with such close
attention that they became unfamiliar and
revelatory.

I like his work as it symmetrical with the use of

nature and different lighting a use of different
materials and compositions there's a nice
pattern seen with different tones of light.