“Canine”, Clifford-Smith Gallery, Boston, MA “Aquatics, Creatures, & Canines”, Margolis Gallery und Houston Center for Photography “Aquatics”, Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA “Aquatics, Creatures, & Canine”, Afterimage Gallery, Dallas, TX “Honky Tonk”, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Nashville, TN “Honky Tonk”, Sarah Morthland Gallery, New York, NY “Honky Tonk”, John Cleary Gallery, Houston, TX “Honky Tonk”, Paul Kopekin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA “Honky Tonk”, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA “Honky Tonk”, The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA “Honky Tonk”, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC “Humans and Other Creatures”, Candace Perich Gallery, Katona, NY “Aquatics”, Kidder Smith Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA “Humans”, Clifford-Smith Gallery, Boston, MA “Humans and Other Creatures”, John Cleary Gallery, Houston, TX “Honky Tonk”, HUG Gallery, Amsterdam 2006 “Honky Tonk”, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Washington, DC “Humans and Other Creatures”, Farmani Gallery, Los Angeles “Honky Tonk”, Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI “Looking at Animals”, Harvard University Museum of Natural History, Cambridge You can choose to see these pictures in any way you want, as graphic images, as metaphors, or even as documents. Beyond that, I have no grand design, no hidden or overt agenda. I want to make fundamentally good pictures – well-crafted photographs that make you stop and look and maybe reflect. Photographing the human body was simply a natural extension of this direction.In all these photographs my goal is very basic.
This way of working felt very different than photographing people, places, and events as a documentary photographer it was far more peaceful, relaxing, and introspective. As the work progressed, I moved closer and closer so I could see my subjects more intimately. His works are painstaking, precise, and soulful at the same time. “Ten years ago, for no discernible reason, I began photographing land and sea animals and produced books called CREATURES, CANINE, and AQUATICS. Describing his animal photographs the newspaper Boston Globe writes: "Henry Horenstein creates quasi-abstract forms of creatures." Not only his series "Creatures" with land animals, but also his photographs "Aquatics" of underwater creatures, are central contributions to today's animal photography. His curriculum vita documents more than 30 books and countless exhibitions in museums and galleries at home and abroad. Since the 1970’s he has been teaching at the famous Rhode Island School of Design. Among his teachers were also the master photographers Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind.
Henry Horenstein (*1947) has been a popular figure and teacher in American photography for a long time, spreading his influence to a myriad of admirers and practitioners of the art, including Nan Goldin, for example, who was one of his students.
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