Welcome to the "GERMAN PHOTOBOOKS" auction by Ecki Heuser (5Uhr30.com, Cologne) - with more than 100 fantastic lots. Wonderful monography by Horst P. Horst (1906-1999). Showing the best photos of six decades by the legendary fashion and society photographer. IF YOU WIN MORE THAN 1 BOOK IN THIS AUCTION, YOU WILL PAY ONLY 1 X SHIPPING COSTS - WORLDWIDE. Schirmer and Mosel, Munich, Paris, London. 2001. First german edition, third printing (identical with the first). Paperback. 230 x 288 mm. 280 pages. 230 photos (39 in color). Edited by Richard J. Tardiff and Lothar Schirmer. Text: Martin Kazmaier. Text in German. Condition: Book inside new, mint, unread. Outside with super fresh covers; spine marginally sunned. Overall very fine condition. Great photobook of the great Horst P. Horst - in fantastic fresh condition. Horst P. Horst (1906-1999) was an American photographer of German origin. He became known for his photos for the fashion magazine Vogue and for his portraits of famous contemporaries. He is one of the most important fashion photographers of the 20th century. Horst was born as Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann. At the end of the 1920s, he studied architecture at the school of applied arts in Hamburg. In 1930 he continued his studies in Paris with the architect Le Corbusier. He met the chief photographer of French Vogue George Hoyningen-Huene (1900–1968), whose lover and frequent model he became for several years and through whom he came to photography. Already in the same year 1931 a full page advertisement appeared in the French Vogue, for which he photographed a model in black velvet. While visiting Hoyningen-Huene in London, he met photographer Cecil Beaton, who asked him to work for the British edition of Vogue. He made his breakthrough as a photographer with the publication of the first British Vogue edition on March 30, 1932, for which he photographed a full-page portrait of the daughter of James Hamet Dunn, an art patron and supporter of surrealism. In the following years he worked for this fashion magazine in the most important fashion centers at that time (Paris, London, New York). In 1935 he moved to the United States, simultaneously with Hoyningen-Huene, and was a US Army sergeant from 1942 to 1945 in the Second World War and acquired American citizenship. At the same time he took the name Horst P. Horst. In 1947 Horst moved into his home in Oyster Bay on Long Island. In 1938 he met the British diplomat Valentine Lawford (1911-1991), with whom he lived until the end of his life and who became his biographer. The couple adopted a son, Richard J. Horst. In 1977 he was involved in documenta 6 in Kassel organized by Manfred Schneckenburger. He directed and photographed many celebrities such as Marlene Dietrich, Yves Saint Laurent, Gloria Vanderbilt and the Duke of Windsor.