FRANK HORVAT, Models with Window, Harper's Bazaar, 1962, 15.5x10.5" Gelatin silver print, Printed c. 1962, Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on print verso; photographer's stamp.

Leading Italian fashion photographer Frank Horvat creats glamour and mystery in this composition.

Frank Horvat (1928-2020) was born in 1928 in what is now Opatija in Croatia, but at the time had been assigned to Italy and known as Abbazia. As a teenager, he traded a stamp collection for his first camera, before studying fine art at the Brera Academy in Milan. A meeting in 1950 with Cartier-Bresson in Paris proved pivotal to his photographic career, encouraging him to adopt the Leica camera and take a two-year trip to India, during which he experienced his first success. By the mid-1950s he had moved to Paris, working first as a photojournalist capturing the sleaze and squalor of the French capital, before turning to fashion photography, injecting what had become a staid genre with a similar dose of realism.

His later work included branching into color photography with projects such as his 1980s series New York Up & Down, which saw him turn his lens on the city's subway passengers and coffee shops. Horvat's work became so varied it was difficult to pigeonhole, covering everything from trees to sculpture to his own home in Provence. When his eyesight started to fail in one eye during the mid-80s, he began interviewing other photographers he admired, such as Don McCullin and Sarah Moon. He also embraced many of photography's changes, including the advent of digital, social media and Photoshop, which he believed helped compensate for the loss of sight he had suffered.

CREDIT: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/oct/22/frank-horvat-groundbreaking-french-photographer-dies-aged-92

Very good. Moderate wear, handling marks, accretions, edge wear.