Mainbocher corset, 1939, photo by Horst P. Horst, courtesy of Horst estate Even with her back to the camera, it is not difficult to intuit that the woman may be crying. The black-and-white photograph ...

If you are at all susceptible to the pleasures of vintage photography, high fashion or celebrity culture then you’re bound to come away from “Horst P. Horst: The Essence of the Times” gobsmacked by ...

The two young fashion students walking through New York’s South Street Seaport were probably born after Horst P. Horst's death in 1999, at the age of 93. But judging by the reaction of one of them, a ...

In Horst P. Horst’s Mainbocher Corset, which appeared in the pages of Vogue in 1939—and is sure to be the centerpiece of “Horst: Photographer of Style,” opening at the V&A in London this week—a ...

For gallerist Chandra Johnson, life can sometimes imitate art. Take, for example, her own boudoir. "The inspiration for my bedroom was a Horst P. Horst picture of Pauline de Rothschild," Johnson says.

The Horst: Photographer of Style exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum is a definitive retrospective on the work of master photographer Horst P. Horst (known simply as Horst), one of the ...

If you are of any age and follow fashion, you're familiar with the work of photographer Horst P. Horst (1906-1999). Or at least one example of his work, the famous Mainbocher Corset, even if you don't ...

Iconic is one of those words much overused in fashion. Like luxury, or genius. But they're all applicable – honestly – to the work of Horst P Horst. Sculptural is an appellation applied to his ...

German-American photographer Horst P. Horst is widely recognized for his fashion photography taken for Vogue. Lisa with Turban, New York, is one of Horst's many photographs of Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Of all the 20th century’s fashion photographers, Horst P Horst remains the most enigmatic. Such obscurity is fitting ...

Image: 11.75 x 8.5 in. (29.84 x 21.59 cm.) "Lisa with Harp" is a gelatin silver print by Horst P. Horst, the German-American photographer renowned for his fashion imagery. In this work, Horst depicts ...