Animalia

Photographs by Henry Horenstein
Forword by Elizabeth Werby

"Though most photographers are driven to find a new vision, even the best fail more often than they succeed. In [these images], Horenstein has succeeded to a dazzling degree, evading the abundant clichs of animal photography at every turn." —Owen Edwards

ANIMALIA is a collection of the best of noted photographer Henry Horenstein's images of sea and land creatures. Described variously as evocative, mysterious, romantic, surprising, and weird, Horenstein's abstract images will make the viewer see otherwise familiar animals in a new and different light. Printed in sumptuous sepia duotones, ANIMALIA will make an elegant gift book for the animal or photographer lover among your friends and family members.

Hardcover, 80 pages
Publisher: Pond Press

Website: www.animaliabook.com

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Aquatics

Photographs by Henry Horenstein
Introduction by Richard Ellis

This companion book to Creatures features 55 mysterious images printed in rich tritone and providing a glimpse of marine life never quite seen before. Photographed in a close-up style, these photographs are sometime abstract and romantic, other times intense and weird, and always intimate and provocative. With an introduction by science writer and marine artist Richard Ellis.

Copyright © 2001

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Canine

Henry Horenstein

This examination of the photographer's inner dog features 57 images of different dogs at play and work, worried and cocky, flying through the air and napping on the sofa—or just showing off. Canine is printed in duotone and packaged in black cloth with a tipped-in cover photograph.

Copyright © 2000

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CLOSE RELATIONS

Photographs by Henry Horenstein

In Close Relations, Henry Horenstein presents his earliest photographs, made when he was a student at Rhode Island School of Design. Mixed with humor and history, this collection of family and friends, landscapes, and period imagery describe a time familiar to everyone, when one moves from adolescence to adulthood—remaining a part of a family while beginning to create a world of one’s own.

As a history student in the late 1960s, Horenstein learned the importance of preserving the present to create a record for the future. As he took up photography, he carried these lessons with him. In Close Relations, he offers us a warm and quirky look at his personal history, and at that of a particular place and time.

Published by powerHouse Books
March 2007
ISBN 1-57687-327-7
$40 retail

Website: www.closerelationsbook.com

Creatures

Henry Horenstein

This is a collection of 55 tritone images presents haunting images of animals from both land and sea. The Boston Globe wrote that the photographer "makes quasi abstractions out of living forms . . . His carp and jellyfish are weightless and oddly graceful, suspended in warm and diffuse atmospheres."

Copyright © 1999

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Honky Tonk
Portraits of Country Music 1972-1981

Henry Horenstein
Foreword by Eddie Stubbs, Grand Ole Opry
Afterword by Charles McGovern, Smithsonian Institution

"When I first became interested in country music, I was struck by the accessibility of the artists to their fans and the bonds this created. Honky Tonk captures this mutual love relationship and reminds us of what country music was and should be about.
—Ken Irwin, co-founder Rounder Records

Chronicle Books

Website: www.honkytonkbook.com

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Humans

Henry Horenstein
Introduction by Robert Flynn Johnson

In this exquisitely produced book, Henry Horenstein explores the landscape of the human body in his unique photographic style. Large prints, grainy and soft in focus, witness the noted photographer's observant eye: Close-up details of body parts, like a beautifully shaped upper lip, an elbow, wrinkles, and hair gain a new lyrical, intimate quality. However, Horenstein's sensuous images never give way to aesthetic perfection, instead they are surprising, sometimes weird, and even odd.

Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg
Copyright © 2004
$50

Website: www.humansbook.com

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Racing Days

Brendan Boyd
Photographs by Henry Horenstein

This evocative blend of 90 duotone photographs and seventy trenchant essays captures the gritty, yet elegant essence of a fascinating, but little-known closed universe—the world of thoroughbred racing. Republished with some changes from the original 1987 edition and with a text by novelist Brendan Boyd.

Copyright © 1987, 1999

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Black & White Photography
A Basic Manual (Third Edition)

Henry Horenstein, Rhode Island School of Design

The new third edition of this classic instructional text provides up-to-date information on materials and equipment for the beginning photographer. The book incorporates all-new illustrations and example photographs and adds more than 35 full-page portfolio photographs by accomplished professional and fine-art photographers.

Black and White Photography is suitable for nearly all introductory courses in photography. It combines thorough coverage of the basic information with simple, lucid writing. Topics covered in Black-and-White Photography include: how photographic materials work; camera basics; the lens, focus and depth of field; the shutter and controlling movement; exposure and metering; film development; traditional and digital printing; print finishing; camera accessories; and simple creative darkroom techniques.

Website: www.bw-photography.net

Accompanying workbook by Kim Mosley.