Round the Clock

Stunning late work that became an instant classic, taken for Vogue in 1987. Horst was 79 years old when he took this photograph, an age when most people would contemplate slowing down a bit or maybe even begin to lose some of their artistic drive or energy. But not Horst. He was commissioned to shoot an advertising campaign for “Round The Clock Hosiery”. What he created was one of the great images of his long and illustrious career.

It is reminiscent of his great 1930’s fashion photographs with the use of dark shadows and bright highlights with light sources coming from the side rather than above. He also seems to be referencing his early interest in surrealism with the use of a cropped and disembodied figure with the legs in this image seeming to be torso-less, emerging only from the wide net petticoat.

It could have been shot yesterday by some young, “hot”, wunderkind fashion photographer rather than by an “old master” whose craft and skill and creativity never left him.

This is a genuine vintage photogravure, printed in Japan in 1992. 31 x 24 cm print archivally mounted on 100% acid-free 11" x 14" board, matted to 16"x20" in a black wooden frame.