Hoyningen-Huene 1900 great photography artist
Hoyningen-Huene
George Hoyningen-Huene (1900-1968). Russian photographer born in St. Petersburg, later naturalized American. In the 1920s he moved to Paris where Hoyningen-Huene studied painting. He distinguished himself as a movie extra and for his friendships in the artistic world with personalities, such as the director Jean Renoir and the model Kiki de Montparnasse, the muse of Man Ray. After achieving success as a fashion designer, he was published in Harper’s Bazaar, Fairchild’s magazine and, from 1925, in Vogue. He studied photography at the same time. From 1926 to 1936 he became one of the top authors for Vogue, for which his work was characterized by aesthetics that were influenced equally by Ancient Greece and surrealism. The characteristic diffused light and the dedicated care to composition were so great that photos that were always shot in a studio seemed to be taken in the open air. After meeting Horst, who would pose for him as a model and introduced him to photography, he left his place at Vogue and, in 1936, moved to New York and to Harper’s Bazaar. Ten years later he arrived in Hollywood, where he made his name as celebrity photographer. He published Hellas, Egypt, and the monograph The Elegance of the Thirties.
He published Hellas, Egypt and the monograph The elegance of the Thirties.
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