Who is a professional photographer in JJ Lin?

Frank Horvat was born in a small Italian town (now Croatia) on 1928. He studied painting in a university in Milan and then started his career as a photojournalist, but he was famous for his fashion photography in the 1950s and 1960s. His earliest photographic essays appeared in the Italian magazine of 195 1.

Horvath was also one of the earliest practitioners who reported fashion photography on the spot with a 35mm camera, thus creating a more realistic style and influencing the fashion photography circles in Britain, France and later the United States. Those photos taken in the street combined the mode of realism and artificial skills, which made him successful.

1932, became a freelance photographer for International News Photography. 1938, his exhibition was exhibited at the first international photography Expo, and there were many important exhibitions in the future, and his works were also collected privately.

/kloc-started working for American photo agency "BlackStar Stock" in 0/953, and settled in Paris three years later, then joined international photo agency Magnum Photos. His photography covers a wide range, from news photography to fashion photography, and he often appears in paris match, Life, Fashion and the most famous Harpers Market.

From 65438 to 0990, he became interested in digital technology and made wonderful digital illustrations for a fairy tale book. Then he published a professional book on digital technology. To this day, he is still publishing various retrospective collections and new picture books, which makes his 80-year-old age glow with strange brilliance.

In his works, whether it is fashion or documentary, whether it is delegated shooting task or spontaneous improvisation, whether it is a series of works or a single image, it shows the mental journey that photographers have been exploring all their lives, especially the space with strong sensory temptation, which has puzzled countless audiences.

One of horvath's representative works (as shown in Figure 1): The model wrapped in white gauze is behind the gentlemen watching horse racing, just like a mysterious petal floating on a black background, telling a fashion story with strong contrast.

However, his works are more vacillating between posing and snapping photos, which makes people wonder. For example, in a picture (as shown in Figure 2), an elegant young woman, lounging in a cheap folding chair, seems to turn to a man outside the photo frame and avoid our sight. Her legs are crossed, and she has recognizable luxury clothes. Her right hand lifted the thin silk dress, but it seemed to catch a tool. The shoulder strap on one side of the dress hangs down, guiding the eyes to soft skin. Is she a female model who deliberately appeared in order to shoot fashion? Or a drunken girl waiting for a sailor at a nightclub?

Take another picture (as shown in Figure 3). In the cafe, the surrounding mirrors reflected the dazzling light from the ceiling chandelier, and the guests scattered aimlessly. However, the focus of the scene is an elegantly dressed woman whose own eyes droop slightly. The man in the evening dress appeared protectively beside her. This is a phased sales model? Or a space accidentally shot in the salon?

In the picture of another bar, the time and place are different, but the scene is much simpler and more meaningful. A young woman's face and a man's back are presented to the audience at the same time. The space between them is compressed, and their heads almost overlap. Men seem to be talking intimately, and natural light leads their eyes to the upward hand holding the cigar. The lady is listening attentively, with a pious smile and a beautiful but incomplete face. They are strangers? Friends? Lover? What are men saying to women? Are they aware of being filmed? Or did someone deliberately arrange for them to shoot?

Horvath didn't tell us the last secret, but the mystery he brought us and the interest in European life for half a century will become an eternal version, telling a history that has disappeared irretrievably, including the creation of art of course. This is the beauty of horvath.

Frank Horvat