Richard Knoppow (dickburk@ix.netcom.com)
Sat, 20 Nov 1999 15:31:52 -0800
Horst P. Horst
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — Horst P. Horst, a photographer of the
fashionable and the
famous, including Harry Truman, Marlene Dietrich and Maria Callas, died
Thursday. He was 93.
Horst, who worked until 1991, photographed subjects as diverse as Coco
Chanel, Jean Cocteau and
Andy Warhol, as well as settings like the Iranian desert and interiors of
Irish castles.
He preferred to work in a studio, where lighting could be manipulated to
glamorize his subjects.
He was born Horst Paul Albert Bohrmann in Germany and dropped his surname
in 1943, after he
became an American citizen, because he did not want to be confused with
the Nazi henchman
Martin Bormann. He legally changed his name to Horst P. Horst.
He went on to have a successful career as a photographer for American
Vogue and also shot
portraits and advertising images for designers like Bill Blass and Calvin
Klein.
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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles,Ca.
dickburk@ix.netcom.com
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