HORST P. HORST (1906–1999) - Marlene Dietrich, New York 1942

Gelatin silver print, printed in 1983

36,6 x 28,2 cm

Photographer's blindstamp in the margin lower right; signed and annotated by the photographer in pencil on the reverse 

PROVENANCE Private Collection Vienna, acquired by the present owner from the Cathleen Naundorf Collection 

LITERATURE  Horst P. Horst, Horst: Photographs of a Decade, New York 1944, p.95; Martin Kazmaier (ed.), Horst. Sixty Years of Photography, London 1995, p. 60; Susanne Brown (ed.), Horst. Photographer of Style, London 2014, Victoria & Albert Museum, p.12; Terence Pepper (ed.), Horst. Portraits, London 2001, p. 105.

I like taking photographs because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all because most of all I love humanity. (Horst P. Horst)