By George!
Agneta Fischer, at the opera, 1931Baron George Hoyningen-Huene (1900–1968) was a seminal fashion photographer of the 1920s and 30s. Born in Russia at the turn of the twentieth century to Baltic German and American parents, he was a true man of the world, for he went on to work in France, England and the United States.
At a youthful 25 he was the chief photographer on French Vogue, associating with the likes of Horst P. Horst and Cecil Beaton. Ten years later he moved to New York and shot for Harper’s Bazaar; produced two art books on Greece and Egypt; then moved on to Hollywood where he worked for the film industry shooting glamorous portraits of film stars.
His subjects in these pictures are beautiful; carved out of shadow and light. Their gazes are averted; their smooth, silky bodies still, recumbent. We are invited to admire their perfection, in awe of the rarefied air they breathe.
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Lacoste bathing suits, 1930
Lelong bathing suits, 1929
Beach fashion, 1940s
The beautiful Lee Miller, 1932
Baroness D'Almeida, 1932
Fashion by Vionnet, 1932