The 1930s, Cocteau, Coco Chanel, Gertrude Stein, the study of architecture, Hoyningen-Huene, Vogue. Horst’s formal sensitivity was influenced by Le Corbusier and his sense of elegance was influenced by his friends from the “beau monde.”
He was the first to use experimental lighting on his models and the objects of his photography giving his elegant and sophisticated images a touch of mystery and the surreal. The “trompe l’oeil” and the compositions of hands, gloves and roses are his most significant contribution to surrealist art.
The 1930s, Cocteau, Coco Chanel, Gertrude Stein, the study of architecture, Hoyningen-Huene, Vogue. Horst’s formal sensitivity was influenced by Le Corbusier and his sense of elegance was influenced by his friends from the “beau monde.”
He was the first to use experimental lighting on his models and the objects of his photography giving his elegant and sophisticated images a touch of mystery and the surreal. The “trompe l’oeil” and the compositions of hands, gloves and roses are his most significant contribution to surrealist art.