Chester College Senior Shows, Henry Horenstein

Chester College Seniors Show Work

Chester College of New England will showcase work by its December 2007 graduates in two, week-long shows.

Work by artists Mike Durkee, Jesse Jaremczak, and Shannon Sopha, will be featured in the Wadleigh Gallery November 26 to December 2 with an opening reception at 6 p.m., Wednesday, November 28. The reception also will feature a reading by Mark Cugini at 7 pm.

From December 3 to 9 the gallery will feature the work of Kerri Aines, Andrew Marshall, and Leah Reynolds. An opening reception will be held on at 6 pm, Wednesday, December 5.




4 December - Henry Horenstein
Photography

On December 4 at 2:30 pm, Henry Horenstein will give a public lecture in the conference room of Chester College of New England's Wadleigh Library. Horenstein is a visiting artist, the last this year of the college's Visiting Artist Lecture Series.

Henry Horenstein has worked as a photographer, teacher, and author since the early 1970s. He is author of over 30 books, including many monographs (Honky Tonk, Humans, Creatures, Aquatics, Canine, Racing Days) and classic textbooks (Black & White Photography, Beyond Basic Photography, Color Photography, Photography with Russell Hart). His newest book Close Relations was recently published by powerHouse Books; it’s a collection of photographs he made as a student of Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind’s at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in the early 1970s. Henry's photographs have been exhibited internationally and are part of many important museum and private collections, including the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, Museum of Fine Art in Houston, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, and the International Museum of Photography. He currently lives in Boston where he continues to photograph, exhibit, publish, and teach at RISD, where he is professor of photography.

Compass Rose interviews Henry Horenstein

Compass Rose: How did you decide what to photograph for you next book?

Henry Horenstein: I met some Burlesque performers and got chatting with them and one of them asked to have her picture taken while performing. I took her pictures and realized that I really liked photographing them so I kept doing it and expanded my subject to drag and performance in general.

CR: Who has been the most influential artist in your work?

Horenstein: A few documentary photographers--Vianargis, Wigi, Ray, Vanderelskin and Robert Franks to name a few.

CR: If you weren’t a photographer what would you be doing now?

Horenstein: I would want to be a musician if I had any talent [laughs]. I think I would be a history teacher because I study German history. (more)