If he revolutionized trend images by giving new life to the engrossed and statuesque fashions of the pre-war interval via the irruption of a vigorous, humorous and offbeat “spirit of reportage,” he by no means ceased to renew and experiment, to the point of being accused of dropping his means and reproached for his excessive eclecticism.
From the photojournalism of his beginnings to the “imaginary, dreamlike, fictitious reportage,” exploiting the unrealistic assets of digital imagery by means of his Bestiaire or Chimères collection, combining realism and the marvelous, within the 1990s, from road images to the plastic research of his Vraies Semblances collection (1980-1986) mimicking the good feminine portraits of Western painting, Franck Horvat has by no means let himself rest on his laurels. It even seems that he has conceived his photographic apply as an everlasting restart.
Two years after his dying on the age of ninety-two, a tribute is paid to him by means of some 250 prints made through the first fifteen years of his profession, from 1950 to 1965. In addition to the long-lasting pictures that appeared in Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar after he revolutionized trend images together with his “pure settings,” a variety of his early pictures show the intensity of a gaze, that of a “photographer of the physique and the intimate.” An depth typically bordering on theatricality by way of using tight photographs accentuated by grain effects, giving the silhouettes a presence, an virtually tactile reality.
Stéphanie Dulout
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