Frank Horvat is a photographer , born 28 April 1928 in Abbazia ( Italy , now Croatia ) and living in France.
In the '50s and '60s, he acquired an international reputation for his fashion photography, regarded as a kind of renewal. But his work is eclectic, ranging from photojournalism to portraiture and landscape, through street photography and essays on the nature and sculpture. In the 80s, he published a collection of interviews of famous photographers. In the following decade, he became a pioneer of digital photography.
Horvat's career as a photographer was greatly influenced by a meeting with renowed photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1950. He puchases a Leica and embarks on a two year long trip throughout Asia as a freelance photojournalist. His trip was a great success and the images he took while on the trip wewre included in the exhibition The Family of Man , the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
orvat in 1985, suffering from an ailment of the eyes, temporarily moves from photography to writing, with a collection of interviews with other photographers (including Edward Boubat , Robert Doisneau , Mario Giacomelli , Josef Koudelka , Don McCullin , Sarah Moon , Helmut Newton , Marc Riboud , Jean-Loup Sieff and Joel-Peter Witkin ).
Coco Chanel, Paris ~ 1958
Frank Horvat, Jardin des Modes ~ 1964
In the '50s and '60s, he acquired an international reputation for his fashion photography, regarded as a kind of renewal. But his work is eclectic, ranging from photojournalism to portraiture and landscape, through street photography and essays on the nature and sculpture. In the 80s, he published a collection of interviews of famous photographers. In the following decade, he became a pioneer of digital photography.
Horvat's career as a photographer was greatly influenced by a meeting with renowed photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1950. He puchases a Leica and embarks on a two year long trip throughout Asia as a freelance photojournalist. His trip was a great success and the images he took while on the trip wewre included in the exhibition The Family of Man , the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
orvat in 1985, suffering from an ailment of the eyes, temporarily moves from photography to writing, with a collection of interviews with other photographers (including Edward Boubat , Robert Doisneau , Mario Giacomelli , Josef Koudelka , Don McCullin , Sarah Moon , Helmut Newton , Marc Riboud , Jean-Loup Sieff and Joel-Peter Witkin ).
