Clarke

Henry (1918). American photographer. The book L’élégances des années ’50s, published in 1986 by Herscher, celebrates his career. His vocation for photography was triggered by the pictures of Beaton and Horst. He attended the classes of Brodowitch at the New School of Design in New York, and did an apprenticeship at Vogue America. In 1949 he moved to Paris where Fath and the Molyneux maison chose him as official photographer. In 1950 the art director Libermann hired him at Vogue America but let him stay in Paris. He would work for Condé Nast until 1975.