HORST P. HORST (1906–1999) ‘Mainbocher Corset’, Paris 1939

Gelatin silver print, printed 1978 45,1 x 34,3 cm (17.8 x 13.5 in) Signed, titled and dated by the photographer on the reverse LITERATURE American Vogue, September 15, 1939; 'C'était hier', French Vogue, December 1939, pp. 34-35; Nancy Hall-Duncan, The History of Fashion Photography, Alpine Book Company Inc. 1979, p. 65; Polly Devlin, Vogue Book of Fashion Photography, London 1979, p. 46; Valentine Lawford (ed.), Horst: His Work and His World, Viking 1984, p. 184; Horst, Photographs 1931-1968, London 1985, s.p; Harrison and Bailey, Shots of Style: Great Fashion Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum, 1985, cat. no. 71; Martin Kazmaier (ed.), Horst: Sixty Years of Photography, London 1991, pl. 8; Michael Koetzle, Photo Icons: Volume 2, Taschen, 2002, pp. 38-45. “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)