Frank Horvat

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Frank Horvat (born April 28, 1928 in Abbazia, today Opatija , Croatia ) is an Italian photographer .

Life

Horvat was born the son of a doctor and went to primary school in Milan after his parents moved . In 1939 he and his family fled to Lugano in Switzerland ; there he attended high school. In 1945 he bought his first camera with his first own money. After returning to Italy in 1948, he began studying art at the Accademia di Brera in Milan. A year later he was working as a graphic designer for an agency in Milan .

He produced his first report in 1951, as a freelance photographer, about pilgrims in northern Italy. In 1951 he met the two photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa in Paris . In 1955 he took part in the exhibition The Family of Man ; In 1959 he joined the Magnum agency for three years. He later also became active as a fashion photographer, for example for Vogue . Here he was considered a representative of an unpretentious, journalistically inspired small-picture aesthetic. In later years he dealt with digital imaging, including a. with the reinterpretation of his older work. Horvat lives in Boulogne-sur-Seine.

Exhibitions

Works (selection)

  • Photographic autobiography , Hatje Cantz, Berlin, 2016, ISBN 978-3-7757-4208-5
  • Figures romanes . Seuil, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-02-051687-X .
  • Frank Horvat . Nathan, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-09-754143-7 .
  • Photodiary . Braus, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-926318-64-3 .
  • Strip tease . Edition Rencontre, Lausanne 1963.
  • Vraies Semblances . Photovision 1999
    - English: Very similar . Dewi-Lewis, Stockton 1999, ISBN 1-89923-557-4 .
    - German: From the true appearance . Umschau Braus, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8295-6822-3 .
  • Frank Horvat - Goethe in Sicily. Photographs for texts from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Italian journey . Goethe Museum, Frankfurt / M. 1998.

literature

  • Rosanna Checchi: Frank Horvat. Very similar. In: Zoom - International. 37. 2000, pp. 28-33
  • Hans-Michael Koetzle: Photographers AZ . Taschen Germany, 2015. ISBN 978-3-8365-1107-0

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personal data
SURNAME Horvat, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian photographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Abbazia, now Opatija , Croatia