From May 13th to July 31st, 2015, the Dina Vierny Gallery presents two series of photographs by Frank Horvat: Baffo and The Hands of Horvat.

In his Baffo series, created in 2008, Frank Horvat drew inspiration from the erotic poems of Zorzi Baffo, an 18th-century Venetian poet, by photographing views of Venice as well as bodies in the intimacy of a bedroom.
In 2012, he photographed his own hands, like close-up portraits, revealing "with more eloquence than he would wish, his age and the degradation it brings (...)".

The exhibition also features photographs from the 1950s taken in Paris.

Born in 1928 in Italy, Frank Horvat is the author of an innovative and multifaceted body of work that has influenced numerous photographers.
In 1950, after meeting Henri Cartier-Bresson, he became an independent photojournalist, then worked mainly for LIFE and PICTURE POST.

From 1957, Frank Horvat became a fashion photographer in Paris and imposed a different style that renewed the previously stiff and frozen fashion photography. He photographed for the biggest fashion magazines such as JARDIN DES MODES, ELLE, GLAMOUR, VOGUE, HARPER'S BAZAAR, in Paris, London, and New York.
Subsequently, he created photographic series on eclectic themes (Trees - True Likenesses - Bestiary - Mythologies - Degas' Sculptures - Veronica - Carrara - Baffo - The Hands of Horvat...).
From the 1990s onwards, he was one of the first to use computers and experiment with digital imagery.