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He produced more than 80 covers for Vogue, but he was never limited to photographing only fashion. He excelled at nude studies,  portraiture, interiors and still life  photography, drawing inspiration from a wide range of sources, from Hellenic sculpture to surrealist discourse. He  captured natural forms, plants, shells and rocks, and created from them abstract  collages. Horst’s little known travel photographs reveal a fascination for ancient cultures, landscapes and architecture.\r\n\nThis modern colour print was produced from an original colour transparency held in the Conde Nast Archive for display in the the V&A exhibition <i>Horst: Photographer of Style</i> (6 Sep 2014 – 4  Jan 2015). Although Horst made many colour photographs as part of his long career working for fashion magazines, few vintage colour prints by Horst exist, because colour images were often printed directly from transparencies onto the pages of  magazines.\n\nV&A Curators worked in collaboration with the Condé Nast Archive and the Horst Estate to reprint these images on a large scale, allowing for this important part of Horst’s career to be included in the exhibition. Original transparencies were scanned in using a drum scanner and printed using an Epson Inkjet Printer. The large scale exposes extraordinary detail in the high-quality scans, revealing every eyelash, pore and stitch in the photographs. The images selected for reproduction focus on Horst’s fashion photography from the 1940s, a period which embodies his dynamic use of colour and signature aesthetic.","physicalDescription":"Large framed colour photograph with a white frame. The photograph depicts a woman lying on her back with the back of her head to the camera, with her bare legs pointed up in the air and crossed at the ankle. On the ends of her feet she supports a large red balloon. The woman wears a white swimming costume and swimming hat and the background is plain white.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Horst","id":"A21022"},"association":{"text":"photographer","id":"x43821"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[],"techniques":[],"materialsAndTechniques":"","categories":[],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"PDP","id":"THES48595"},"images":[],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"A","id":"THES304203"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"Photograph","id":"AAT46300"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[],"productionDates":[],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Photograph by Horst P. Horst, Cover image for American <i>Vogue</i> 15 May 1941, colour inkjet print from original Kodachrome colour transparency, 1941 (printed 2014)","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"American Vogue, Vol.97, no.10 (May 15, 1941), p.31: 'Sunbathed,\r\nbut not sun-struck - the girl on the cover knows how\r\nto spend summer, how to be beautiful from head to toe.\r\nYou summer-wise ones can follow suit - this issue shows\r\nhow'"}],"production":"This photograph was printed by Ken Allen Studios in 2014 in collaboration with the Condé Nast Archive and the Horst Estate. This process was overseen by V&A curators and Condé Nast archivists. The print was shipped to the UK for framing at John Jones London, where it was mounted on aluminium and framed in a simple white frame.","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.663-2017"],"accessionNumberNum":"663","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2017,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-09","recordCreationDate":"2017-08-29","availableToBook":true}}