He was full of years and we need not be too sad. But what an eye he had.
Maybe it’s enough just to remember that he was brilliant, in colour as well, as many people forget. In colour, he was as good as Harry Gruyaert. As good as Saul Leiter. Of these, the one that goes into Hodgson’s Choice is the Drugstore Entrance because it’s complicated enough I’d never get bored of it. It’s busy and still, and it makes me think of Sonny Stitt.
And maybe he quite liked yellow.
All these pictures come from his book SideWalk, published by Hatje Cantz this month (in 2020! Horvat was born in 1928. )