Frank Horvat may be viewed as the precursor of “mode-reportage”, a photographic genre which was revolutionary in 1950 and characteristic of the ’60s.
To Horvat, photography was all about capturing spontaneity and recording “that which will never be again”.
“When someone asks me my profession, I answer “photographer”. That is easy to say, not as if I had to announce “I am an astrologer”, or “a tax inspector”. It is, however, less simple than to say “a sculptor” or “a plumber”. It seems to me, each time, that I should be more specific and add something like “but a photographer is not what you imagine” or “but what is understood by photography has to be defined”.
Frank Horvat may be viewed as the precursor of “mode-reportage”, a photographic genre which was revolutionary in 1950 and characteristic of the ’60s.
To Horvat, photography was all about capturing spontaneity and recording “that which will never be again”.
“When someone asks me my profession, I answer “photographer”. That is easy to say, not as if I had to announce “I am an astrologer”, or “a tax inspector”. It is, however, less simple than to say “a sculptor” or “a plumber”. It seems to me, each time, that I should be more specific and add something like “but a photographer is not what you imagine” or “but what is understood by photography has to be defined”.