Every single day in 1999 Horvat photographed - creating a personal diary of the last year of the century. The challenge was to produce at least one image of substance. But, beyond this, as a committed European, he also wished to include images from all the countries in the European Union. The result is a fascinating and revealing panorama of the vision of one of the world's great photographers - a self portrait in a way - but also a sweeping vista of a continent nurtured by centuries of strong tradition. Illustrated with 480 colour plates.

Die Fotografie ist nicht nur ein Medium. Sie ist eine künstlerische Disziplin. Hinter der Mechanik der Kamera steht der einfühlsame Blick des Meisters. Dafür lässt sich wohl kaum ein deutlicherer Ausdruck finden als Frank Horvats aktueller Bildband. Von 1979 bis 1986 bildete New York eine Art Refugium des Fotografen. Hier überließ er sich dem Treiben der Straßen und hielt ihr facettenreiches Leben fest. Zugleich reflektierte er in Tagebucheinträgen über seine persönliche Weise der Bildfindung und die Bedeutung der Fotografie selbst. Die Aufnahmen und Schriften entstanden als private Arbeiten zwischen seinen Aufträgen. Viele davon wurden bisher nicht veröffentlicht. Im vorliegenden Bildband werden sie erstmals und zusammen präsentiert. Die Texte Horvats auf dünnem Munken- und seine Aufnahmen auf tiefem Bilddruckpapier bilden die zwei Seiten eines Schaffens, aus dem wahre Fotokunst sich zusammensetzt.

Frank Horvat (*1928 in Abbazia, today Opatija, Croatia), a pioneering fashion photographer and one of the first professional photographers to use Photoshop, can meanwhile look back at around seventy years of activity and a dazzling career. The grand seigneur now allows us very personal insight into his private life: the autobiography in pictures reveals personal moments from all phases of his life. We encounter the great themes of humankind, such as birth and death, are witness to his ability to play, and to handle animals, we see his family, his friends. They are everyday images like anyone could have assembled in an album. However, there is one slight difference: a master was clearly at work here early on, the quality of the photographs speaks for itself. In the appendix, Horvat comments, in most cases at length, on each of the chronologically ordered pictures.

Zebras in the California desert; a crocodile in the Loire, a buffalo in the Alps. In Frank Horvat's computer-enhanced world, native habitats become irrelevant and animals appear in alien settings where they nevertheless seem to blend in comfortably. Taken in zoos and then digitally manipulated, the pictures in this collection explore boundaries. 46 color photos.

A series of recollections that concern both the childhood and work of the writer John Fowles. For him, the tree is the best analogue of prose fiction, symbolising the wild side of our psyche, and he stresses the importance in art of the unpredictable, the unaccountable and the intuitive.

This text looks at Robert Capa's colour photography, a little-known but important aspect of the great photographer's work, and includes many never-before-published images. Capa regularly used colour film from the 1940s until his death in 1954. Some of these photographs were published in magazines of the day, but the majority have never been printed, seen, or even studied. "Capa in Color" presents this work an integral part of his post-war career and fundamental in remaining relevant to magazines.

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