BIOGRAFIE
1928 | born in Abbazia, Italy |
1939 - 1945 | lived in Lugano, Switzerland |
1947 - 1950 | moved to Milano, Italy studied at the Accademia di Brera then worked in an advertising firm, then purchased a Rolleicord camera and freelanced for Italian magazines |
1950 | met Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris |
1952 - 1953 | traveled to Pakistan and India as free-lance photographer |
1953 - 1959 | worked at an advertising firm in Milano, Italy |
1954 - 1955 | moved to London and worked for LIFE and Picture Post |
1955 | moved to Paris |
1957 - 1962 | became a fashion photographer and worked for Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, and Jardin des Modes |
1958 - 1961 | became part of MAGNUM as an associate photographer |
1962 - 1963 | worked on two books, Strip-Tease and Television |
1986 - 1987 | worked on Entre Vues: interviews with famous photographers |
1989 | began experimenting with digital imaging |
1989 | began experimenting with digital imaging |
1990 - 1998 | worked on projects for books, including Sculptures by Degas, Bestiarium, Chimerae", Ovid's Metamorphoses, Walks Around Boulougne-Billancourt |
2000 | Film FRANK HORVAT, 1999, on ARTE |
2000 - 2003 | worked on La Veronique: 50 yards around my house in Provence |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
2019 | La Mostra Fotografica, Carona Immagina 19 at Carona, Swiss Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (MAMM) Leica Camera Hong-Kong |
2018 | Vieille église St Vincent, Mérignac Musée de la Photographie, Lille Museo Palau Solterra, Spain Camera Gallery, Paris Fifty One Gallery, Antwerpen Palazzo Chiablese, Turin Nexus Hall Chanel, Tokyo |
2017 | Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris Galerie Minautore, Paris Izzy Gallery, Toronto Galerie GADCOLLECTION, Paris |
2016 | Dina Vierny Gallery, Paris Fahey Klein Gallery, Los Angeles |
2015 | Helmut Newton Foundation, Berlin |
2014 | Palazzo Mediceo di Seravezza, Italy Théâtre de La Photographie et de l'Image, Nice |
2013 | Gallery Dina Vierny, Paris |
2012 | Gallery Hiltawski, Berlin Dina Vierny Gallery, Paris Brucie Collections, Kiev, Ukraine Susanna Orlando Gallery, Forte dei Marmi, Italy Presentation House, Vancouver, Canada |
2011 | Birgit Filzmaier, Zurich, Switzerland CRAF, Spilimbergo, Italy |
2010 | Manège Gallery, Saint-Petersburg BSI Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland Photographica Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland |
2009 | Gallery Hiltawski, Berlin Gallery Aplanat, Hamburg Gallery Dina Vierny, Paris Gallery Ersel, Torino, Italy |
2008 | Artparis La-Maison-près-Bastille, Paris Villa Tamaris, La Seyne, Var, France |
2007 | La-Maison-près-Bastille, Paris Assolibri Gallery, Florence, Italy |
2006 | Tristan’s Gallery, Cornwall, GB La-Maison-près-Bastille, Paris Espace Landowski, Boulogne-Billancourt, France Holden Luntz Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida, USA |
2005 | Musée Maillol, Paris Assolibri Gallery, Florence, Italy |
2004 | Wouter Van Leeuwen Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland Janos Gat Gallery, New York, USA Nature and Landscape Festival, La Gacilly, France Dina Vierny Gallery, Paris |
2003 | Fahey-Klein Gallery, Los Angeles Maison de la Photographie, Toulon, France Jan Schluetter Gallery, Köln, Germany |
2002 | Fundation Vila Casas, Barcelona, Spain Janos Gat Gallery, New York Staley Wise Gallery, New York Haeckelbury Fine Arts, London Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris Fifty-one Fine Art Photography, Antwerpen |
2001 | Galerie Dina Vierny, Paris |
2000 | Galerie Serge Aboucrat, Paris Jane Jackson Gallery, Atlanta, GA, USA Galerie In Focus,Cologne, Germany Sao Paolo, Brasil Stadtgalerie, Kiel, Germany Musée Régional des Centovalli, Intragna, Switzerland Galleria Assolibri, Firenze, Italy Fundation Armando Alvarez Penteado, Sao Paulo, Brazil “FRANK HORVAT”, 1999, Film, at ARTE |
1999 | Casa di Goethe, Rome Zoological Museum in Kiel, Germany Hackelbury Fine Arts, London |
1998 | Goethe-Haus, Frankfurt a.M., Germany Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris Institut Français, Valencia, Spain Galeria Railowski, Valencia, Spain |
1997 | Photographie-Forum, Frankfurt a.M. Institut Français, Prag, Czech Republic Institut Français, Bratislava, Slovakia Staley-Wise Gallery, New York Galleria Acta International, Rome, Italy |
1996 | Fotofest, Houston, USA Musée Carnavalet, Paris |
1995 | Hamiltons, London, Staley Wise, New York Carla Sozzani, Milano Agathe Gaillard, Paris Centro Krizia, Milano Parc Régional de la Bresse, France |
1994 | Select Collection at Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland Centre National de la Photographie, Paris |
1993 | Centre National de la Photographie, Paris Foto-folies, Rodez, France |
1992 | Galerie Pictorial, Paris Centre National de la Photographie, Paris |
1991 | Vision Gallery, San Francisco, USA Victoria and Albert Museum, London Galerie du Chateau d'Eau, Toulouse, France |
1990 | Fotofest, Houston, USA French Institute, New York several FNAC centers in France Folio Gallery, Calgary, Canada FNAC, Paris |
1989 | Prinz Gallery, Kyoto, Japan Espace Paris-Audiovisuel, Paris Festival de la Photographie de Mode, Trouville, France |
1988 | Centre Culturel Français, Prag, Czechoslovakia Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris Bell Commons Space, Tokyo |
1987 | Fondation Cartier, Jouy-en-Josas, France |
1986 | Galleria Novecento, Palermo, Italy Photokina, Köln, Germany Centre Culturel, Verrières, France |
1985 | Centre d'Art Centemporain, Montbéliard, France Stadtmuseum, München, Germany Victoria and Albert Museum, London |
1984 | Centre Culturel, Toulon, France Sander Gallery, New York Centre Kodak, Paris |
1983 | Centre Pompidou, Paris Maison de la Culture, Angoulème, France La Chambre Claire, Paris Espace Canon, Paris |
1982 | National Museum, Malta Centre Pompidou, Paris |
1981 | Galerie Mamya, Paris Galleria Novecento, Palermo, Italy Zeit Gallery, Tokyo |
1980 | Artcurial Gallery, Paris Photographers Gallery, London |
1979 | ICP New York |
1978 | Photographers Gallery, London |
1977 | Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Nantes, France |
1955 | FAMILY OF MAN, MOMA, New York |
AUSZEICHNUNGEN
2010 | Award of PREMIO DEL CENTENARIO, by La Fondazione del Centenario, Lugano, Switzerland |