Horowits

Ryszard (1939). Polish photographer. Imprisoned as a child in the concentration camp of Auschwitz, he was one of the youngest survivors along with the director, Roman Polanski. After studying at the Superior School of Fine Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts, he left Krakow for the USA, where he studied graphics, painting, and photography at the Pratt Institute of New York, following the seminars of Alexey Brodovitch. He started a career as art director for several agencies. He left this in 1967 to open a fashion and advertising studio for photography. He collaborated Harper’s Bazaar, Sports Illustrated, New York Magazine, and Town & Country as well as devising campaigns for AT&T, Toshiba, Chanel, and Saks Fifth Avenue. He also had several personal exhibitions. Extremely fanciful and with heavy impact, both from a chromatic standpoint and for the audaciousness of shots, his photos were often made with digital techniques, which Horowitz was among the first to invent.