OPEN POST: Classic Glamour for Monday

I thought about making an April Fools' Day joke for Open Post, but the world is so ridiculous right now that there is no way to top it. I almost pretended to be kicked out of my house for adultery; however, no one on here who knows me would have believed that one for a second. So, I decided to share some fashion photography from a man whose style inspired future legends Richard Avedon and Irving Penn. 

Male torso with white drapery, 1930

George Hoyningen-Huene was a highly influential and innovative fashion photographer whose elegant, modernist style defined the visual language of the industry in the 1920s and 1930s. He began his fashion photography career in Paris in the 1920s and quickly became French Vogue magazine's chief photographer by 1925. He was a mentor to the young photographer Horst P. Horst, who became his lover and frequent model.

 

   

Divers, swimwear by AJ Izod, 1930

Reflection: Vogue’s Eye View of the Mode (Mrs Hubbell), 1930

Josephine Baker, 1929

Serge Lifar and Olga Spessivtseva as Bacchus and Ariadne, 1931

Portrait of the Dalís in L’Instant Sublime, 1939

Katharine Hepburn, 1939

Judy Garland, 1945

Coco Chanel, Paris, 1932