This image was taken at the Baroness' Louise De Waldner house, wife of Baron Geoffrey De Waldner. De Waldner's were an ancestral family whose last name can be found in the courts of Louis XVI in Versailles, and have always been related to the monarchy. The Baroness herself was a very close friend to the British Queen mother. Even though this was during the first period of colour and new subjects for Horst, we found this particular image to be quite modern, simple and romantic. The roses left casually in a basket on the steps with the cutter and the view of the stones and mould and moss growing from the years of the castle, is really simple but at the same time, it says a lot. The “Around That Time, portfolios are literally a time capsule of style and design from the 1960s-1980s. The images chosen for this portfolio are a who’s who of the tastemakers and influencers from one of the most exciting and innovative periods of the twentieth century. Never before was there a moment quite like this, and never before or since has there been a photographer of such unique talent as Horst P. Horst.”
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Around That Time - Baron & Baroness de Waldner, 1964 (Small size)
Around That Time - Baron & Baroness de Waldner, 1964
Archival pigment print
DIMENSIONS:
Small
Image size: 23.6 in. H x 23.6 in. W
Sheet size: 29.5 in. H x 29.5 in. W
Edition of 9
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Medium
Image size: 31.5 in. H x 31.5 in. W
Sheet size: 39.4 in. H x 39.4 in. W
Edition of 5
Large
Image size: 50 in. H x 50 in. W
Sheet size: 50 in. H x 50 in. W
Edition of 3
Extra Large
Image size: 59.4 in. H x 59.4 in. W
Sheet size: 59.4 in. H x 59.4 in. W
Edition of 2
Horst P. Horst German-American, 1906-1999 (born Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann) was one of the towering figures of 20th-century fashion photography. Best known for his work with Vogue—who called him “photography’s alchemist”—Horst rose to prominence in Paris in the interwar years, publishing his first work with the magazine in 1931. In the decades that followed, Horst’s experimentations with radical composition, nudity, double exposures, and other avant-garde techniques would produce some of the most iconic fashion images ever, like Mainbocher Corset and Lisa with Harp (both 1939). As The New York Times once described, “Horst tamed the avant-garde to serve fashion.” Though associated most closely with fashion photography, Horst captured portraits of many of the 20th century’s brightest luminaries, dabbling with influences as far-ranging as Surrealism and Romanticism. “I like taking photographs because I like life,” he once said. “And I love photographing people best of all because most of all I love humanity.”
