Henry clark photography biography samples

Henry Clarke was born in Los Angeles, California in 1918. During the early 1940s, Clarke worked as a window dresser for I.

Magnin, a high fashion and specialty goods luxury department store in San Francisco, California. In 1946, Clarke moved to New York and took a temporary job as a background and accessorizing assistant at the Vogue studio.

Henry clark photography biography samples

During that time, Clarke had the opportunity of observe the different styles of famous photographers such as Cecil Beaton, Irving Penn and Horst P. Horst.

Clarke became fascinated with photography and enrolled on a course at the New School for Social Research, instructed by Alexey Brodovitch.

Clarke learned how to combine the fantasy of fashion with the energy of photo-reportage, and self-taught himself to use the twin-lenses Rolleiflex camera, realizing that the future of photography depended very much on the use of the smaller more adaptable cameras.

Clarke left Vogue and