![Born in 1958 in Abbazia, Italy, Frank Horvat is considered one of the founding fathers of French fashion photography. Frank Horvat: Storia di un Fotografo is on at Palazzo Chiablese Musei Reali, Turin, until 16 June. Here: Rosalind and children, Yorkshire (for British Vogue) 1961. (Photo by Frank Horvat/The Guardian)](https://pix.avax.news/avaxnews/0c/e0/0004e00c_medium.jpeg)
Born in 1958 in Abbazia, Italy, Frank Horvat is considered one of the founding fathers of French fashion photography. Frank Horvat: Storia di un Fotografo is on at Palazzo Chiablese Musei Reali, Turin, until 16 June. Here: Rosalind and children, Yorkshire (for British Vogue) 1961. (Photo by Frank Horvat/The Guardian)
![Horvat started out as a photojournalist. Meeting Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1951 proved to be a milestone in his career, leading to a two-year trip to Asia and exhibiting internationally, including in the 1955 show The Family of Man at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Here: Prostitutes, Bois de Boulogne, 1956. (Photo by Frank Horvat/The Guardian)](https://pix.avax.news/avaxnews/0d/e0/0004e00d_medium.jpeg)
Horvat started out as a photojournalist. Meeting Henri Cartier-Bresson in 1951 proved to be a milestone in his career, leading to a two-year trip to Asia and exhibiting internationally, including in the 1955 show The Family of Man at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Here: Prostitutes, Bois de Boulogne, 1956. (Photo by Frank Horvat/The Guardian)
![In 2014, Horvat told the Guardian that unlike Robert Doisneau and the so-called humanist photographers’s heavily romanticised version of 1950s Paris, he saw the city as it really was: poor and dilapidated. Here: Fashion in the Métro (for Jardin Des Modes), 1958. (Photo by Frank Horvat/The Guardian)](https://pix.avax.news/avaxnews/0e/e0/0004e00e_medium.jpeg)
In 2014, Horvat told the Guardian that unlike Robert Doisneau and the so-called humanist photographers’s heavily romanticised version of 1950s Paris, he saw the city as it really was: poor and dilapidated. Here: Fashion in the Métro (for Jardin Des Modes), 1958. (Photo by Frank Horvat/The Guardian)
![Horvat approached the idea of beauty in unexpected ways. As he put it, Paris’s Pigalle quarter “was in all the songs and poems, but it was not a nice place. It was sordid and dirty. But that kind of thing can make great photographs, too”. Here: Model with mask (for Lingerie Chantelle ), 1958. (Photo by Frank Horvat/The Guardian)](https://pix.avax.news/avaxnews/0f/e0/0004e00f_medium.jpeg)
Horvat approached the idea of beauty in unexpected ways. As he put it, Paris’s Pigalle quarter “was in all the songs and poems, but it was not a nice place. It was sordid and dirty. But that kind of thing can make great photographs, too”. Here: Model with mask (for Lingerie Chantelle ), 1958. (Photo by Frank Horvat/The Guardian)
![From 1957, Horvat turned to fashion photography, bringing an exciting realism to what had become a stuffy genre. Here: Monique Dutto (for JDF), 1959. (Photo by Frank Horvat/The Guardian)](https://pix.avax.news/avaxnews/10/e0/0004e010_medium.jpeg)
From 1957, Horvat turned to fashion photography, bringing an exciting realism to what had become a stuffy genre. Here: Monique Dutto (for JDF), 1959. (Photo by Frank Horvat/The Guardian)
![Horvat’s work for Elle, Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, both in Europe and the US, saw him heralded as an emerging figure of note. But he also fell out with Cartier-Bresson, who slated his work as pastiche. Here: Simone D’Aillencourt with designer Hardy Amies (for British Vogue), 1961. (Photo by Frank Horvat/The Guardian)](https://pix.avax.news/avaxnews/11/e0/0004e011_medium.jpeg)
Horvat’s work for Elle, Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar, both in Europe and the US, saw him heralded as an emerging figure of note. But he also fell out with Cartier-Bresson, who slated his work as pastiche. Here: Simone D’Aillencourt with designer Hardy Amies (for British Vogue), 1961. (Photo by Frank Horvat/The Guardian)
![Between 1959 et 1962, Horvat continued to work as an editorial photojournalist, as well as putting together two books, one on TV, the other on striptease. Here: Deborah Dixon and Federico Fellini (for Harpers Bazaar), 1962. (Photo by Frank Horvat/The Guardian)](https://pix.avax.news/avaxnews/12/e0/0004e012_medium.jpeg)
Between 1959 et 1962, Horvat continued to work as an editorial photojournalist, as well as putting together two books, one on TV, the other on striptease. Here: Deborah Dixon and Federico Fellini (for Harpers Bazaar), 1962. (Photo by Frank Horvat/The Guardian)
![Horvat’s oeuvre is eclectic, taking in reportage, fashion, landscape and portrait photography, along with street shots and studies of art and nature. Here: Bathing Suit (for British Harpers Bazaar), 1965. (Photo by Frank Horvat/The Guardian)](https://pix.avax.news/avaxnews/13/e0/0004e013_medium.jpeg)
Horvat’s oeuvre is eclectic, taking in reportage, fashion, landscape and portrait photography, along with street shots and studies of art and nature. Here: Bathing Suit (for British Harpers Bazaar), 1965. (Photo by Frank Horvat/The Guardian)
![The rough vibrancy of 1980s New York – a city he visited repeatedly – pushed Horvat to experiment extensively with colour. Here: Midtown, NYC, 1983. (Photo by Frank Horvat/The Guardian)](https://pix.avax.news/avaxnews/14/e0/0004e014_medium.jpeg)
The rough vibrancy of 1980s New York – a city he visited repeatedly – pushed Horvat to experiment extensively with colour. Here: Midtown, NYC, 1983. (Photo by Frank Horvat/The Guardian)
![Horvat’s subsequent series New York Up and Down paid homage to the city in all its grime and glory – from coffee shop customers and Central Park sun seekers to unexpected subway encounters. Here: Balloons in the subway, 1984. (Photo by Frank Horvat/The Guardian)](https://pix.avax.news/avaxnews/15/e0/0004e015_medium.jpeg)
Horvat’s subsequent series New York Up and Down paid homage to the city in all its grime and glory – from coffee shop customers and Central Park sun seekers to unexpected subway encounters. Here: Balloons in the subway, 1984. (Photo by Frank Horvat/The Guardian)
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