Word: gownã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...gelatin plated silver photographs with their carefully posed models and flowing drapery harks back to classical Greek friezes. In one famous photograph, Horst transforms two large rolls of paper into what seem like Greek columns. His regal model—dressed in a fitted but flowing white gown??€”resembles a Greek goddess. Both Huene and Horst placed Greek sculptures in the background of their work and even blew up large reproductions of them to serve as backdrops for their photographs. They wanted to bring the grace and beauty of classicism into the world of twentieth century fashion...