Henry Horenstein studied history at the University of Chicago. He earned his BFA and MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he studied with legends Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind.
www.horenstein.com
Henry's work is collected and exhibited internationally, and he has published over 35 books, including several monographs of his work such as Honky Tonk, Histories, Show, Animalia, Humans, Racing Days, Close Relations, and many others. He has also authored Black & White Photography, Digital Photography, and Beyond Basic Photography, which hundreds of thousands of college, university, high school, and art school students use as their introduction to photography.
His Shoot What You Love is a memoir and a personal history of photography over the past 50 years. His latest monograph, Speedway1972, was published by Stanley/Barker (UK) in 2022, and We Sort of People will be published by Kehrer Verlag (Ger) in the fall of 2023.
In recent years, Henry has been making films Preacher, Murray, Spoke, Partners, and Blitto Underground. He is currently in production on Marksville, LA, a film about Cajun, Louisiana.
Henry is a professor of photography at RISD and lives in Boston.
16 мар 2024
