# Ryszard Horowitz, Photocomposer

> Official website of Ryszard Horowitz (born 5 May 1939, Kraków, Poland), a Polish-American photographer, photocomposer, graphic designer and art director based in New York. He is a pioneer of special-effects photography that predates digital imaging, one of the youngest known survivors of Auschwitz, and an inductee of the International Photography Hall of Fame (2017).

## Key facts
- Born in Kraków on 5 May 1939. His family survived the camps thanks to Oskar Schindler.
- Studied at the High School of Fine Arts and the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków; photographed the birth of Polish jazz in the 1950s.
- Moved to New York in 1959; studied at Pratt Institute and apprenticed with Alexey Brodovitch.
- Art director at Grey Advertising; opened his own photography studio in 1967.
- Honours include ADWEEK All-American Photographer of the Year (1983), Art Directors Club of New York Gold Medals, the Gloria Artis Gold Medal (2008), honorary doctorates from the Warsaw (2010) and Wrocław (2012) Academies of Fine Arts, the Commander's Cross with Star (2014), the International Photography Hall of Fame (2017) and the Canon USA Legends Program (2021).
- All images are available as archival pigment prints produced by his studio, signed and dated by the artist. Prices on request: ryho@ryszardhorowitz.com

## Pages
- [Home](https://ryszardhorowitz.com/): introduction and collections
- [Biography](https://ryszardhorowitz.com/biography.html): life story, awards and exhibitions 1958–2025, published portfolios and books
- [Work](https://ryszardhorowitz.com/work.html): all collections
- [Analog](https://ryszardhorowitz.com/analog.html): 48 works. Photocompositions made in camera and in the darkroom, 1965–2006, before a computer could do any of it.
- [Digital](https://ryszardhorowitz.com/digital.html): 49 works. From the early 1990s on, the same impossible worlds, now assembled pixel by pixel.
- [Jazz](https://ryszardhorowitz.com/jazz.html): 72 works. Krakow’s jazz cellars in the 1950s and the American giants of 1958–63: Brubeck, Ellington, Armstrong, Monk.
- [Kraków](https://ryszardhorowitz.com/krakow.html): 17 works. His home city, folded, warped and haunted.
- [Poznań](https://ryszardhorowitz.com/poznan.html): 29 works. Impressions of Poznań, published as a book in 2010.
- [Wrocław](https://ryszardhorowitz.com/wroclaw.html): 19 works. Water towers, filters and the city from the Mathematical Tower, in spherical and Mercator projections.
- [Sketches & paintings](https://ryszardhorowitz.com/sketches.html): 80 works. Conceptual sketches: where the photocompositions begin.
- [Books](https://ryszardhorowitz.com/books.html): An Extraordinary Life; All That Jazz; Ryszard Horowitz / Photocomposer; Ryszard Horowitz
- [Video](https://ryszardhorowitz.com/video.html): All That Jazz; The Photographer of Dreams; Allegory; Photocomposer; At Work; Polanski, Horowitz: Hometown (trailer)
- [Prints & contact](https://ryszardhorowitz.com/prints.html): how to buy a signed print

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