The co-creator of the website photobooth.net, Tim Garrett employs vintage photobooths to create his art. Made using uncut photostrips, Garrett's playful works, such as the inventive Hand Jive, make us contemplate the construction of the final piece as well as issues of time and compositional space.
While at Brown University earning his BA in computer science, Garrett studied extensively with the Visual Art and Modern Culture and Media Departments. In addition, he studied photography at the Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI). Garrett has shown at various galleries around the country, most recently at the Mad Art Gallery (St. Louis, MO), and was also part of the Art*o*mat Vending Art Project.
Noting the diminishing number of photobooths, as well as the lack of any comprehensive photobooth resource, I set out to create an online repository for all things photobooth. In 2005, along with film archivist Brian Meacham, we introduced Photobooth.net, a website in which we document photobooth locations and chronicle photobooth appearances in print, media, and art.
Henry Horenstein was invited to join the PRC Board of Directors in 1986 when he began hosting lectures and workshops. Since then, he has regularly given lectures and booksignings at the PRC and selections from his book Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music 1972-1981 (2003) were shown in the gallery in 2003.
Before attending the Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI), Horenstein studied history at the University of Chicago and in England. Studying with Harry Callahan, Aaron Siskind, and Minor White, he received both his BFA and MFA in photography from RISD in the early 1970s and soon after began teaching at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA) and the University of Massachusetts (Boston, MA). He also worked as a creative consultant for the Polaroid Corporation for six years.
Author of the classic textbooks Black-and-White Photography: A Basic Manual, Beyond Basic Photography, PHOTOGRAPHY (with Russell Hart), and Color Photography, Horenstein has also published over 30 books, including Humans (2004), Aquatics (2001), Creatures (1999), Racing Days (1987), and Close Relations, showcasing some of his earliest photographs, to be published by powerHouse books. Collected extensively, his work has been exhibited and collected at the National Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution (Washington, DC), DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park (Lincoln, MA), and the George Eastman House (Rochester, NY). The publisher of the resource website teachingphoto.com, Horenstein currently resides in Boston and teaches photography at RISD.
