Horst. Photographs of a Decade

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This is Horst's first published book. Published during the latter years of the Second World War, Photographs of a Decade contains a selection of Horst P. Horst's fashion and portrait work from the mid-1930s to the mid-1940s. It is divided into two sections. The first is a collection of his Paris images, taken during the heady days before the outbreak of war. The second is a selection of his photos taken in New York, after he had emigrated there. The two sections reveal both his development as a photographer and also the changes in taste demanded by Vogue magazine and his new audience. The Paris section includes portraits of Mademoiselle Chanel, Salvador Dali, Elsa Schiaparelli, The Hon. Mrs. Reginald Fellowes and Jose-Maria Set at the Bal Oriental, The Vicomtesse de Noailles, Lady Mendl, Noel Coward, Cole Porter and The Duchess of Windsor. The New York part includes Madame Valentina, Rita Hayworth (in bed), Joan Crawford, Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis, Tallulah Bankhead, Ingrid Bergman, Gertrude Lawrence and Alfred and Lady Diana Duff-Cooper. Also included throughout are many of his fashion photographs taken forVogue , with clothes by Chanel, Schiaparelli, Alix, Molyneux, Mainbocher, etc.



Preface by Dr. M. Agha. Edited by George Davis. Text by Horst P. Horst. J. J. Augustin Publisher. New York. 1944. First edition. Hardback, quarto; orange cloth with title-label to front board, without dust jacket. 133 pages. Illustrated with nearly 100 full-page black-and-white plates. English. 315 x 245mm. 0.9kg. . Fair; missing pages 105-106, lacking dust jacket; from our Imperfect Shelves and thus sold at a reduced price, with no frills but reliable packaging.