He made history in fashion. He brought history and fashion together, just take a look at his fashion photographies taken in historical sites around the world. He captured celebrities from the 20s century on paper, through his photographs, and thus he preserved their images for history. Henry Clarke is one of the most renown fashion photographers in the last century.

A bit of his personal history: born in 1918, in Los Angeles, California, he discovered his true calling, that of a fashion photographer, in 1945. In 1949 Clarke moved to Paris where he worked for different fashion magazines. The next year he began a fruitful collaboration with the French, English and American editions of Vogue that would last more than a quarter-century. He wasn’t only a fashion photographer, he also took celebrity portraits, Coco Chanel, Sophia Loren, Maria Callas, Elizabeth Taylor, being only few of the big names that posed for him. His photography, be it color or black and white, in an exotic setting such Syria, Mexico or Iran, or with a simple wall as background, always manages to convey the elegant lines of the female body, while the characters, be them fashion models or celebrities of the time, manage to tell a story comprised by the glimpse of the camera’s objective.

Summer Pleasures, June 1960

Bar du Soleil, Deauville, July 1961
‘What stripes are to tigers and peaches to cream, these sun clothes are to smart resort life: indispensable’ Vogue’s sun-worshipper wears a loose sweater, slit deeply at the side, by Falconetto

Model in front of Mercedes, with L’Arc de Triomphe in background, 1955.

Tweed dress, matching coat with fur collar, fur hat, and gloves all by Patou, holding handbag,

Double-Breasted Suit by Balmain, 1954

Hat of feathers, worked to look like silk, in a pale orange, by Adolfo of Emme. Brown wool tweed coat, pinned with Verdura brooch

1959 – Rose-Marie for Givenchy

Model facing car in Paris 1951 .

Greeny yellow coat with dropped shoulders and a spread of burnoose-like sleeves by Griffe,

1968 — Actress Tina Aumont

Model Wearing Givenchy Short-Sleeved Dress, 1955

Olhao, Portugal,1952 Halter and skirt by Brigance,

Joanna McCormick for chanel, 1957