[Horst. Hoyningen-Huene]
An album of photographic portraits of the leading lights of the 1930s art scene collated by Horst. Writers, artists, musicians, ballerinas, actors, opera singers, film stars, fashion designers and the odd "celebrity" are represented, with short accompanying biographies. The sitters include Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Misia Sert, Lee Miller, Marlene Dietrich, Greta Garbo, Chanel, Schiaparelli, Josephine Baker, Leonor Fini, Cecil Beaton, Visconti, Cole Porter, Diana Vreeland and many more. The photographs are by Horst himself or by George Hoyningen-Huene, who bequeathed his photographic collection to Horst upon his death in 1968. Janet Flanner, the long-time Paris correspondent of the New Yorker, provides the foreword.
Introduction by Horst. Foreword by Janet Flanner. Notes on the plates by Valentine Lawford. Photographs by Horst and George Hoyningen-Huene. The Viking Press. New York. 1971. First edition. Hardback, quarto; red cloth-bound boards, without dust jacket. 192 pages. 162 b&w photographs. English. 285 x 230mm. 1.2kg. 9780670616381. Good; a clean copy but lacking dust jacket; from our Imperfect Shelves and thus sold at a reduced price, with no frills but reliable packaging.
