Ryszard Horowitz (born May 5, 1939) is a Polish-born American photographer. He is recognized as a pioneer of special effects photography that predates digital imaging.
Table of Contents
- 1 Early life
- 2 Personal life
- 3 Career
- 3.1 Ryszard Horowitz / Photocomposer
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Early life
Horowitz was born in Kraków, Poland upon May 5, 1939. Four months later, Ryszard’s entire intimates were annoyed into amalgamation camps taking into consideration the German onslaught of Poland.
From September 1944 he was imprisoned at Auschwitz and highly developed became known as being along with the youngest known people to survive Auschwitz inclusion camp and to be listed on Schindler’s list. At the war’s end, five-year archaic Ryszard was reunited next his intimates after his mom found him in an orphanage, and they were between the few Jewish families to re-establish themselves in Krakow.
Horowitz began taking pictures at the age of fourteen. For a brief grow old of time during his childhood he grew up nearby Roman Polański next whom he created his first photographic enlarger from cardboard.
Personal life
In 1974, Horowitz married Anna Bogusz, an architect. They have two sons, Daniel and Emil.
Career
In 1956, the Polish dispensation began awarding subsidies to urge on new and indigenous art forms and Kraków quickly emerged as a middle of militant jazz, painting, theater and filmmaking.
For two years, beginning in 1959, Ryszard studied art at the High School of Fine Arts in Kraków and then went upon to major in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts. It was at this time that he became avid in photography, particularly the play-act of American photographers.
Jazz music was of particular engagement to Horowitz as a photography student. He photo documented the birth of Polish Jazz and in 1958 photographed jazz legends such as Dave Brubeck, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Sonny Rollins at the Newport Jazz Festival.
Ryszard immigrated to the United States in 1959 and enrolled at New York’s Pratt Institute in the advertisement and advertising graphic design department. Here he encountered his mentors, Richard Avedon and Alexey Brodovitch. Horowitz took allocation in weekly seminars led by Brodovitch and worked as an partner for Avedon in 1963, including at his famous portrait session once Salvador Dali. After graduating from Pratt in 1962, Horowitz began keen in film and television and graphic design companies, including a stint as Art Director for Grey Advertising.
In 1967, he opened his own photography studio in New York City. He has developed a successful career in both fine art and want ad photography, but is most competently known for creating obscure photographic composites, which have been compared to the surrealist artworks of Magritte and Dali. Early in his career, to come by such effects he used a multitude of photographic techniques such as darkroom retouching, multiple film exposures and batter of his camera.
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