As MoMA curator John Szarkowski explained in 1967, this generation of photographers “redirected the technique and aesthetic of documentary photography to more personal ends. In this body of work, Horenstein adopts a snapshot aesthetic that was in widespread use by artists of the contemporaneous “New Documents Movement,” including Lee Friedlander, Diane Arbus, and Garry Winogrand, among many others. Horenstein characterizes this series as “a portrait of a unique place and time. Organized as a component of the NBWM exhibition and oral history initiative, Common Ground: Community Stories, “Close Relations” presents an intimate and photographically compelling look at life in the SouthCoast in the early 1970s. Between 1970-77, Henry Horenstein took medium format photographs of his family, neighbors and friends – first, in the SouthCoast areas of New Bedford and Dartmouth and, later, in Greater Boston, where his parents moved.
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