12 Facts About Ryszard Horowitz

Ryszard Horowitz was born on May 5,1939 and is a Polish-born American photographer recognized as a pioneer of special effects photography that predates digital imaging.

At war's end, five-year old Ryszard Horowitz was found in an orphanage by his mother and reunited with his family.

Ryszard Horowitz's was among the few Jewish families to re-establish themselves in Krakow.

For two years, beginning in 1959, Ryszard Horowitz studied art at the High School of Fine Arts in Krakow and then went on to major in painting at the Academy of Fine Arts.

Ryszard Horowitz immigrated to the United States in 1959 and enrolled at New York's Pratt Institute in its commercial and advertising graphic design department.

Ryszard Horowitz took part in weekly seminars led by Brodovitch and worked as an assistant for Avedon in 1963, including at his famous portrait session with Salvador Dali.

In 1967, Ryszard Horowitz opened his own photography studio in New York City.

Ryszard Horowitz has developed a successful career in both fine art and commercial photography, but is most well-known for creating complex photographic composites, which have been compared to the surrealist artworks of Magritte and Dali.

Early in his career, to obtain such effects, Ryszard Horowitz used a multitude of photographic techniques such as darkroom retouching, multiple film exposures and manipulation of his camera.

In 2017, Ryszard Horowitz was inducted into the International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum.

Ryszard Horowitz was depicted as a child in Steven Spielberg's epic drama Schindler's List - a film about Oskar Schindler, a German businessman who saved over a thousand Polish-Jewish refugees during the Holocaust.

Ryszard Horowitz's photographs appear on the cover of both Dot Hacker's 2014 How's Your Process albums.