Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Frank Horvat

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Last updated on December 25, 2024.

Frank Horvat was an Italian photographer who lived and worked in France. He is best known for his fashion photography, published between the mid 1950s and the late 1980s. Horvat's photographic opus includes photojournalism, portraiture, landscape, nature, and sculpture. He was the recipient of the Fondazione del Centenario Award in 2010 for his contributions to European culture.

Born: April 28, 1928

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By trying many different approaches, you may slowly reach the point where you say more about yourself than about the objects or the landscapes or the people you photograph - and this is where photography really interests me.

Frank Horvat

Photography is the art of not pushing the button.

Frank Horvat

There's this idea that photography is a kind of testimony and therefore we're forbidden to tell lies with it. I think that's nonsense. Photography isn't testimony.

Frank Horvat

...photography is made essentially of time. I often think that what we show is a point in time, more than a window onto space.

Frank Horvat

To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.

Frank Horvat