Frank Horvat

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Frank Horvat
Born(1928-04-28)28 April 1928
Abbazia, Italy (present day Croatia)
Died21 October 2020(2020-10-21) (aged 92)
OccupationPhotographer

Frank Horvat (28 April 1928 – 21 October 2020) was an Croatian-French photographer. He was best known for his fashion photography, published between the mid 1950s and the late 1980s.

Horvat's photographic opus includes photojournalism, portraiture, landscape, nature, and sculpture.[1]

In 1988, he produced a book of interviews with fellow photographers such as Don McCullin, Robert Doisneau, Sarah Moon, Helmut Newton, and Marc Riboud.

Horvat died in October 2020 at the age of 92.[2]

Bibliography[change | change source]

  • 1957 : La capture des éléphants sauvages, Editions Louvois, Paris, ASIN B003WPVD3I
  • 1962 : J'aime la télévision, Editions Rencontre, Lausanne, Switzerland (text by Max Egli), ASIN B00J7TN9MQ
  • 1962 : J'aime le strip-tease, Editions Rencontre, Lausanne, Switzerland (text by Patrik Lindermohr), ASIN B00181B2TI
  • 1979 : The Tree, Aurum Press, London and Little, Brown, New York (text by John Fowles), ISBN 0906053048
  • 1990 : Entre vues, Éditions Nathan, Paris, ISBN 9782092400333
  • 1991 : Degas sculptures, Imprimerie nationale, Paris, ISBN 9782110811424
  • 1992 : Yao le chat botté, Éditions Gautier-Languereau, Paris, ISBN 9782010200731
  • 1994 : Arbres, Imprimerie nationale, Paris, ISBN 9782110813091
  • 1994 : Le Bestiaire d’Horvat, CNP et Actes Sud, ISBN 9782742703739
  • 1996 : Paris-Londres, London-Paris, Éditions de la Ville de Paris, ISBN 9782879002910
  • 1996 : De la Mode et des Jardins, Éditions de l’Imprimerie Nationale, Paris, ISBN 9782743301644
  • 1998 : 51 Photographs in Black and White, Dewi Lewis, Manchester, ISBN 9781899235469

References[change | change source]

  1. Contemporary photographers, dir. Martin Marix Evans, article "Horvat Frank", St James Press, Detroit, 1995, pp 508–511.
  2. Duponchelle, Valérie (21 October 2020). "Décès du photographe Frank Horvat, l'homme qui aimait les femmes". Le Figaro.fr. Retrieved 2020-10-21.