

His lecture is sponsored by URI’s Department of Art and Art History.įor further information, contact the URI Department of Art and Art History at 40.

He is currently living in Boston where he continues to exhibit, publish, teach and explore photography. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degree from Rhode Island School of Design.

His work has been published in Life, People, Outside, Fortune, TIME, Vanity Fair, Communication Arts, Graphics and American Photographer. Horenstein is a natural with the camera and has the ability to capture the unique personality of his own subject matter, which has included a variety of subjects including thoroughbred horses and dogs to human anatomy and the country music scene. Horenstein has published three other widely used texts, including Beyond Basic Photography, Color Photography and Photography. He has written a number of widely used texts, including Black and White Photography: A Basic Manual, which remains the textbook of choice in photography programs across the country. Horenstein has worked as a photographer, teacher, and author since the early 1970s. in the Cherry Auditorium of the Kirk Engineering Building, Upper College Road, Kingston Campus. The talk, free and open to the public, will be held Feb. This richly illustrated hands-on manual is for photographers of every level interested in color. Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. His role model then was street photographer Weegee, but lessons about composition and tone he learned from RISD teachers, including Aaron Siskind and Harry Callahan, became implicit in his work, too.KINGSTON, R.I.-February 1, 2008- Henry Horenstein, professor of photography at Rhode Island School of Design, will discuss art and education during a talk at the University of Rhode Island. Little, Brown, 1995 - Photography - 231 pages. In 1972, he was in graduate school at Rhode Island School of Design. Horenstein remembered Thompson saying, “‘It’s going to be a righteous job.’” “He thought we should be studying, recording, and documenting people who were probably going to be overlooked in history.” “He was a leader of what was called ‘the bottom-up school of history,’” said Horenstein. The speedway job grabbed him because of what Thompson taught him. Thompson at England’s University of Warwick. Color Photography: A Working Manual - Henry Horenstein - Google Books This richly illustrated hands-on manual is for photographers of every level interested in color. He also has authored popular technical manuals about photography, and a memoir, “Shoot What You Love.”īefore he turned to photography, Horenstein studied history at the University of Chicago, and with labor historian E.P.

He has published books such as “Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music,” and “Show,” about the burlesque scene in New York. Horenstein, now 74, carries his camera everywhere in search of characters and communities.
