HERBERT LIST – YOUNG MEN & STILL LIFES
2019-08-19List’s playful but austere, classically arranged compositions taken in Italy and Greece have become an indelible influence in modern and contemporary photography. Diary-like images of friends and still lives with found objects gave birth to a style that half a century later would influence fashion or lifestyle photography of masters like Bruce Weber or Herb Ritts.
Herbert List (1903 -1975) was born into a prosperous Hamburg merchant family and began an apprenticeship at a Heidelberg coffee dealer in 1921 while studying literature and art history at Heidelberg University. During travels for the coffee business between 1924-28, the young List began to take photographs, almost without any pretensions to art.
Opposite – Young Men Under Reed Roof, Torremolinos, Spain, 1951
Exhibition runs through to August 31st, 2019
Fahey/Klein Gallery
148 North La Brea
Los Angeles
90036 CA
