Catherine Couturier Gallery is thrilled to present Speedway 72, an exhibition of work by artist and educator Henry Horenstein.
Horenstein is a Boston Based photographer whose roots are in documentary photography, which is especially evident in his Speedway, 72 series. These photographs were taken when Horenstein was still a graduate student at Rhode Island School of Design.
“I was looking through old, forgotten boxes of prints a couple of years back and found pictures I liked a lot. Not so much when I took them, as when I saw them decades later. These pictures were initiated by my brother-in-law Paul, who raced stock cars - old, beat-up cars customized for racing. Paul's cousin Dickie Simmonds owned the local Gulf station and modified the junkers that Paul drove at places like the Seekonk Speedway (Seekonk, MA) and the Thompson Speedway (Thompson, CT).
Here, my photographic heroes were the great chroniclers of urban life, Brassai and Weegee. In SPEEDWAY, I wanted to do what they did - to show us a slice now of what the world looked like then - here, small-town New England 1972, dutifully recorded and preserved.”
Born in New Bedford, MA, Horenstein 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. He has been a professor of photography at RISD since 1981 and lives in Boston.
Henry’s work is collected and exhibited internationally, and he has published over 30 books, including several monographs of his own work.
The artist will be in attendance for a book signing and reception on Saturday, October 8th.
Image: ©Henry Horenstein - Thompson Speedway, Thompson, CT, 1972 - Archival Pigment Print
Instagram 
Facebook 
Pinterest 
X / Twitter 