Horst (2014)

Horst: Photographer of Style, V&A Publishing hardcover, 2014 Led by Susanna Brown, the V&A's curator of photographs, and published for the museum's 2014 retrospective, this 352-page hardcover, about 9.4 by 12.2 inches, sets Horst P. Horst's Vogue fashion work in Paris and New York beside his portraits, nudes and still lifes with classical and Surrealist motifs, collages of plants and shells, travel pictures and photographs of notable homes. That range is the reason to choose it over a tighter fashion edit: it suits a reader as interested in interiors and objects as in couture. The V&A shop lists it out of stock, so plan on a secondhand copy.