Rome’s Museo di Roma/Palazzo Braschi hosts the George Hoyningen-Huene photo exhibit, October 19th, 2025

Rome’s Museo di Roma/Palazzo Braschi (it’s located right next to Piazza Navona) hosted the George Hoyningen- Huene photo exhibit.

 
Over 100 photographs illustrate the significance that George Hoyningen-Huene (he was born in St. Petersburg in 1900 and died in Los Angeles in 1968) had in the development of fashion photography.  Influenced by classical art and Surrealism, Hoyningen-Huene’s style helped shape the haute couture aesthetics of the 1920s and 1930s.  He worked for Vogue in Paris, Harper’s Bazaar in New York and during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

Famous personalities that are included in his photo exhibit are Josephine Baker, Johnny Weissmuler (a former Tarzan movie star), Ava Gardner, Gary Cooper, Charlie Chaplin, Sophia Loren, Dali’, Marlene Dietrich, Katharine Hepburn and former fashion model (and war photographer) Lee Miller who had also been Hoyningen-Huene’s student.  Miller was the one who had photographed the Buchenwald and Dachau concentration camps (actress Kate Winslet recently made a film on her extraordinary life).