The Story Behind Legendary Fashion Photographer Horst's Mainbocher Corset -- and Madonna
In a follow up to our Instagram teaser about Horst P. Horst's iconic fashion photograph "Mainbocher Corset" and its relationship to Madonna's music video for "Vogue," we go down the rabbit hole to learn about what happened the night he shot that image, his debt to surrealist Man Ray, maybe even to 19th century painter Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres -- and the power of names, connections...and migration.
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