We’re fans of Frank Horvat’s work. His photographs of the seamier side of Paris nightlife in the 1956 are glorious. He tells us:
“I was lucky. In 1950 – aged 22 – I was a young man who had given up his dreams of becoming a writer or a painter, but without having acquired anything like a proper profession. By 1960, I had travelled for two years in Asia, as a photojournalist, lived and worked in Paris, London and New York, as a fashion photographer, and become reasonably well known in the small world of photography.”
Horvat’s luck and talent take us back to post-war London right before the 1960s swung in…
1954, London, teenagers
1959, London, Green Park, couples
1959, London, Piccadilly
1959, London, policeman
1959, London, City clerk (a)
1959, London, customer at Lobb’s shoe shop
1959, London, ladies of the Salvation Army
1955, Windsor Castle, UK, regatta
1955, England, ladies in Hyde Park
1955, London, Tower Bridge from London Bridge
1955, London, City
1955, London, Lambeth, boxing boys
1955, London, East End, Brick Lane dog market
1955, London, East End, Brick Lane dog market
1955, London, East End, Brick Lane dog market
1955, London, East End, Brick Lane dog market
1955, London, underground commuters
1955, London, Frank Horvat, self-portrait
1955, London, Café Royal, Regent street
1955, Manchester Ship Canal
1954, London, old car race
1959, London, Soho, dancing couple
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