Beyond Basic Photography by Henry Horenstein

Henry is professor of photography at RISD and lives in Boston.

He is currently in production on Where Everybody is Somebody, a film about Cajun Louisiana. In recent years, Henry has been making films: Preacher, Murray, Spoke, Partners, and Blitto Underground.

His latest monograph, Speedway 1972 was published by STANLEY/BARKER (U.K.) in 2022 and We Sort of People will be published spring 2023 by Kehrer Verlag (Germany). He has also authored Black & White Photography, Digital Photography, and Beyond Basic Photography, used by hundreds of thousands of college, university, high-school, and art school students as their introduction to photography. His Shoot What You Love serves both as a memoir and a personal history of photography over the past 50 years. Henry's work is collected and exhibited internationally and he has published over 30 books, including several monographs of his own work such as Honky Tonk, Histories, Show, Animalia, Humans, Racing Days, Close Relations, and many others. Horenstein’s work is collected and exhibited internationally, and he has published more than 35 books. He studied history at the University of Chicago and earned his BFA and MFA at RISD, where he studied with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. Rich with character, culture and story, Honky Tonk is a piece of Americana we are grateful Henry has preserved.He studied history at the University of Chicago and earned his BFA and MFA at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), where he studied with legends Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. Henry Horenstein has been a professional photographer, filmmaker, teacher and author since the 1970s. He captures country queens Dolly Parton and Loretta Lynn, favorites Jerry Lee Lewis and Waylon Jennings, late nights at the famous Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge in Nashville, backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, and decades of colorful and devoted fans. A photographer and ardent music fan, Henry covers it all-exploring bluegrass festivals, country music parks, dance halls and honky tonks. Honky Tonk is a collection of black and white photographs captured between 19 that document the changing world of traditional country music and its fans. He is a professor of photography at RISD and lives in Boston, Massachusetts. He is the author of over 30 books, including the monographs Show, Animalia, Close Relations, Humans, and Racing Days, as well as some of the most widely used textbooks in the field, including Black & White Photography, Beyond Basic Photography, and Digital Photography. Henry received his MFA at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and studied under Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind.

26-28 at Grayduck Gallery in Austin in conjunction with the Texas Book Festival. this year and will be opening an exhibition on Oct. Henry is bringing his own photographic skills to a new monograph, Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music, published by W.W.

I had the great experience of meeting Henry Horenstein this spring–my dog-eared copy of Black & White Photography: A Basic Manualwas my guide through the darkroom years of chemicals and enlargers and it was an honor to meet my very capable teacher.

Beyond Basic Photography by Henry Horenstein