Horvat, Frank (b. 1928), Italian-born photographer with an unfolding personal agenda. He spent the Second World War in Switzerland, where, aged 15, he took up photography. The late 1940s found him back in Italy, studying art, working in advertising and, eventually, becoming a freelance magazine photographer. After periods in France (meeting Cartier-Bresson and Capa), Pakistan and India (working freelance), and England (working for Life and Picture Post), he settled in Paris in 1955 and began to build a career in fashion photography. Travel nevertheless remained a feature of his life, and the ensuing years saw him active as a fashion and advertising photographer in both Europe and the USA, while a commission for the German magazine Revue took him around the world. Since the late 1970s, personal projects have absorbed an increasing amount of his time, and he has focused on subjects as varied as trees, townscapes, sculpture, and Ovid's Metamorphoses. His versatility continues: he has experimented with digital imaging since the late 1980s, while his visual diary A Daily Report: 1999 served (inter alia) as a reminder of his credentials as a documentary photographer.
— Robert Pols
Bibliography
- Frank Horvat, Frank Horvat (1989).
- Horvat, F., Fifty One Photographs in Black and White (1998)
