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This is where we share our favourite George Hoyningen-Huene photographs and latest discoveries from the archive.
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Lee Miller and Agneta Fischer for Vogue, 1932
Hoyningen-Huene produced this magical image by combining two separate shots. The result is a photograph in which Lee Miller appears like a fortune teller, looking down at a miniature Agneta Fischer dressed in a diaphanous gown inside a shimmering crystal ball. Both models appeared frequently in Huene's pictures from the 1930s, and both became photographers themselves.
‘ON THE COVER — “Trois”: Three flannel tiers, three vivid colors — lemon, cyclamen, scarlet — a romantic cape to throw over a black afternoon or dinner dress. Created by Valentina. The cover is a Kodachrome by Hoyningen-Huene.’
Harper’s Bazaar, October 1941
Vintage magazine from the collection of @icp
Swipe to see an alternate version of this image, a vibrant Kodachrome transparency from the collection of @metmuseum
The life-size illustration is by the French master Marcel Vertès
‘VIONNET — Everywhere, a touch of gold or silver around the waist, sometimes in colour, sometimes on white - as on this Vionnet dress of sheer crepe romain where the gold leather is cut in flowers and leaves to bind soft folds around a slim waist.’
Harper’s Bazaar, November 1936
At first glance it’s hard to distinguish the living model from the static mannequin. They posed for #georgehoyningenhuene wearing Grecian-inspired gowns, their elegant arms intertwined.
‘They sweep down the stairs into the night club, into the party, into a whirl of gaiety symbolic of night life anywhere in the world. A flower-printed satin Alix gown, with a chiffon scarf. Salon Moderne, Saks Fifth Avenue. A dusty blue taffeta wrap, designed by Bergdorf Goodman. A black net and rayon taffeta dress from Paquin in Paris. The set, the sparkle, the ballet girls – all by courtesy of the Radio City Music Hall.’
Harper’s Bazaar, July 1935
Another stunning colour image by #georgehoyningenhuene
Bronze sculpture by Siegel, 1928
Published in American Vogue, July 15, 1928, 'Vogue's Eye View of the Mode'.
Siegel was a manufacturer of mannequins and other metal accessories hangers. In the 1920s and 1930s Siegel supplied the majority of clothing shops in Paris.
Photo by George Hoyningen-Huene, 1928.
Princess Natasha Paley was a Russian aristocrat who, like Huene, fled her homeland to begin a new life in Paris. She became a well-known socialite and house model for the designer Lucien Lelong, marrying him in 1927. In this image for Vogue, she wears a spectacular feather and paillette cape by Lelong. She posed for Huene’s camera many times and starred with Horst P. Horst in a movie that Huene began shooting in 1932 but never finished.
Photo by George Hoyningen-Huene from 1933.
Photographer George Hoyningen-Huene met Joseph Pilates in New York and became a Pilates enthusiast. Huene took the photographs for the Pilates book 'Return to Life through Contrology', first published in 1945.
Photo: Huene exercising by the Pilates method, part of a series of similar self-portraits. Undated.