The best professional advice Henry Horenstein ever received was to
"shoot what you love." He's been doing that for more than four
decades, capturing photographs that often richly evoke older
cultures and places, especially ones that are disappearing: country
musicians in Branson, horse racing at Saratoga Springs, nightlife
in Buenos Aires, fais do-dos in Cajun Louisiana, old highways
everywhere. Horenstein brings these images together in this rich
visual memoir, along with behind-the-scenes stories, insights, and
tips and suggestions for being a better photographer. His
photographs and engaging, often humorous stories chronicle a career
that begins in the 1960s, when photography was a trade and even the
greatest photographers were not considered to be artists. He
amusingly recounts his early assignments. Using his family and
friends as subjects for a book on drug abuse was not too much of a
stretch, he says, and while shooting Dolly Parton for what would
become the Boston Phoenix, the star told him, "Honey, people don't
come out to see me looking like them." He engagingly recalls his
shoots with stars like the Lennon Sisters and Emmylou Harris, as
well as his encounters with Ansel Adams, Minor White, Aaron
Siskind, Harry Callahan, Nan Goldin, and many other photo legends.
Commanding these pages, though, are the subjects with whom
Horenstein has chosen to spend most of his professional career,
shooting what he loves. His images of honky-tonk stars, stock car
drivers, exotic sea creatures, mixed-race residents of rural
Maryland, and Venezuelan baseball players tell what he calls "a
good story . . . with humor and a punch line, if possible."
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