Frank Horvat

The catalogue of the exhibition which will be held at the Jeu de Paume in Tours in 2022, with more than 250 photographs taken after the war by Frank Horvat, between 1950 and 1965. Born in Italy in 1928 to Jewish parents from Central Europe, he took refuge in Swiss in 1939, Frank Horvat began photography in the early 1950s. From 1952 to 1955, his first trips to Pakistan, India, Israel and England earned him numerous publications in the international press. Managing to capture close-ups of scenes of great intensity and sometimes forbidden places, he reveals himself to be a photographer of the body and of the intimate. A fascination that he will also express in his fashion images for Jardin des modes, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar or in the hallucinatory vibrations of a world tour carried out in 1962-1963, remained largely unknown. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume-Tours, this catalogue is focuses on the first fifteen years of Frank Horvat's career, period during which he asserted an extraordinary personality as an author-reporter and fashion photographer. This book constitutes the first monograph historical study of the work of Frank Horvat, renewing the vision and analysis of his work, through a collection of photographs, unpublished documents and specialist texts.