拍品 83

I don't know how I did it. I couldn't repeat it. It was created by emotion.... It was the last photo I took in Paris before the war. I left the studio at 4.00 a.m., went back to the house, picked up my bags and caught the 7.00 a.m. train to Le Havre to board the Normandie.... The photograph is peculiar -- for me. While I was taking it, I was thinking of all that I was leaving behind. HORST

HORST P. HORST (1906-1999)

Mainbocher Corset, Paris, 1939

细节

HORST P. HORST (1906-1999)
Mainbocher Corset, Paris, 1939
platinum on silk, printed circa 1990
9 5/16 x 7 1/16in. (24.2 x 18cm.)

来源

Acquired directly from the artist

出版

'C'était hier', Vogue, Paris, December 1939 , pp. 34-35;
Hall-Duncan, The History of Fashion Photography, Alpine Book Co. Inc., 1979, p. 65;
Devlin, Vogue Book of Fashion Photography, Thames and Hudson, 1979, p. 46;
Lawford, Horst, His Work and his World, Viking, 1984, p. 184; Harrison and Bailey, Shots of Style: Great Fashion Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985, cat. no. 71;
Horst and Schirmer, Horst: Sixty Years of Photography, Universe, 1991, pl. 8;
Fraser, On The Edge: Images from 100 Years of Vogue, Random House, 1992, p. 25;
Koetzle, Photo Icons: Volume 2, Taschen, 2002, pp. 38-45.

拍品专文

This print is from a very small, un-numbered edition not intended for sale. It is one of only a few recorded platinum prints made to Horst's instruction on silk. See also lot 57.