Photographic Art of Hoyningen-Huene - Hardcover

William A. Ewing

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847807185 ISBN 13: 9780847807185

Publisher: Rizzoli, 1986

Synopsis

This account of the 1920s Parisian photographer is illustrated with more than two hundred reproductions and offers an intimate look at his inspirations and artistic growth

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

From unpublished memoirs and other sources, Ewing (Style and Motion, etc.) offers a comprehensive picture biography of Geoge Hoyningen-Huene, who was born into Russia's aristocracy and in the Paris of the '20s and '30s became a quintessential sophisticate among fashion magazine photographers. For Vogue, Vanity Fair and Harper's Bazaar he provided location and studio portraits of models, designers, film stars, authors, poets and society's darlings. Influenced by Man Ray, Baron de Meyer and Edward Steichen, Hoyningen-Huene set a standard of elegance in a genre later taken further by Horst, Penn and Avedon. In this volume's richly reproduced portraitsamong them Coco Chanel, Cocteau, Chaplin, Stravinsky, the Windsors, Lifar, Dolores Del Rio and Garboartist and subject combine superlatively in what came to be known as glamour.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal:

Hoyningen-Huene, called Huene, was one of fashion's most elite photographers. Born into an aristocratic family in Russia in 1900, Huene was well educated. Having fled the Revolution, he began a career in illustration in Paris that led into fashion photography. His work for Paris Vogue and Harper's Bazaar recalled his early passion for what Ewing calls "the cult of the classical." With help from Huene's memoirs and friends, Ewing brings the man and his lesser known portraits, documentary images, and Hollywood work into focus, and discusses Huene's artistic milieu and trends in both fashion and photography. This luxurious book with over 200 duotone images and 11 color plates is full of the glamour that characterized the artist's life and work.Ann Copeland, Drew Univ . Lib., Madison, N.J.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0847807185
• ISBN 13: 9780847807185
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 248