Bob Henriques

As early as 1950, when he was only 20 years old, Henriques began selling pictures of New York City street scenes, and Coney Island amusements. On Election Day 1952 he photographed Dwight D. Eisenhower as he won the U.S. Presidency from Adlai Stevenson. In this early commercial work he was associated with PIX Publishing,{{Cite news|date=March 8, 1953|title=Parade Picture Credits|work=Long Beach Independent|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/long-beach-independent-mar-08-1953-p-71/}} a photo agency. These photos are still available for sale from Getty Images.{{Cite web|title=Bob Henriques Pictures and Photos - Getty Images|url=https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/bob-henriques?family=editorial&phrase=bob%20henriques&sort=mostpopular#license|access-date=2020-11-07|website=www.gettyimages.com}} He affiliated with Magnum Photos in 1954.

In 1954 Henriques began working on the set of The Seven Year Itch{{Cite news|date=May–June 1997|title=Rare Marilyn|page=100|work=American Photo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V1X5VLfhsiAC&q=%22life+magazine%22+%22bob+henriques%22&pg=PA100}} which was filming in New York City. He developed a relationship with Marilyn Monroe who allowed him to photograph her in both formal and casual settings. Due to Monroe's worldwide popularity, these photos are among the most recognizable images that Henriques ever captured. Henriques not only photographed her on location, but also at Yankee Stadium, Ebbets Field, at social functions, and in her apartment in New York. The relationship lasted well beyond the filming, and Henriques photographed Monroe as late as the premier of Some Like It Hot in 1959.{{Cite web|title=Marilyn Monroe at the premier of Some Like It Hot|url=https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Marilyn-Monroe-ahttps://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/bob-henriques-b-1930-marilyn-monroe-5165069-details.aspxt-the-premiere-of-Some-L/E1B72954472548A0|website=MutualArt}}

In September 1959 Henriques covered Nikita Khrushchev's visit to the United States. This included a trip to Hollywood, where Khrushchev visited the set of Can-Can. Henriques captured an image of Shirley MacLaine caressing Khrushchev on the forehead.{{Cite web|title=Nikita Khrushchev and Shirley MacLaine, Hollywood, California by Bob Henriques on artnet Auctions|url=https://www.artnet.com/auctions/artists/bob-henriques/nikita-khrushchev-and-shirley-maclaine-hollywood-california|access-date=2020-11-05|website=www.artnet.com}} Henriques was also accredited to cover Khrushchev's visit with President Eisenhower at Camp David{{Cite news|date=September 26, 1959|title=Roster of Correspondents, Photographers Assigned To Cover Talks At Camp David|work=Gettysburg Times|url=https://newspaperarchive.com/gettysburg-times-sep-26-1959-p-3/}} and he captured images of the two leaders in vigorous conversation.{{Cite web|title=Nikita Khrushchev and Dwight D. Eisenhower, Washington, D.C. by Bob Henriques on artnet Auctions|url=https://www.artnet.com/auctions/artists/bob-henriques/nikita-khrushchev-and-dwight-d-eisenhower-washington-dc|access-date=2020-11-08|website=www.artnet.com}}

In 1961 Henriques worked on the set of Long Day's Journey Into Night which was filming in New York City. This effort produced a number of notable pictures of Katharine Hepburn, including her portrait in Life magazine.{{Cite news|date=December 7, 1961|title=A Day's Work For Stars|work=San Francisco Chronicle|url=https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A142051F45F422A02%40GB3NEWS-1509370BF711177D%402437641-15092AED694EFD20%4056-15092AED694EFD20%40?h=3&fname=&mname=&lname=&kwinc=%22Bob%20Henriques%22&kwexc=&rgfromDate=1950&rgtoDate=1965&formDate=&formDateFlex=exact&dateType=range&processingtime=&addedFrom=&addedTo=&sid=nambuiqecnicnipryltuynkyyrxgyrvd_wma-gateway005_1604538757213}}{{Cite news|date=October 26, 1962|title=A Movie Journey into Greatness|work=Life Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gVUEAAAAMBAJ&q=look+magazine+%22Bob+Henriques%22&pg=PA4}}

On May 17, 1957 Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke to a crowd of more than 22,000 people from the front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. This event was known as the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom. Henriques was on the podium, behind King, as he delivered his "Give Us The Ballot" speech to what was then the largest civil rights audience ever assembled in America. The images he captured at this event are among his most widely published. One of them was chosen for the inside front cover of Life Magazine's fiftieth anniversary tribute to King in 2018.{{Cite book|last1=Johnson|first1=Charles|last2=Lewis|first2=John|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1141522196|title=Martin Luther King Jr|date=2018|publisher=Life Magazine|isbn=978-1-5478-4209-4|oclc=1141522196}} In 2020 Magnum produced "Solidarity", a special print sale to benefit the NAACP and one of Henriques' photos from the Prayer Pilgrimage was part of the collection.{{Cite web|title=Solidarity: The Magnum Square Print Sale, supporting the NAACP, in collaboration with Vogue|url=https://www.magnumphotos.com/events/square-prints/solidarity-square-print-sale-naacp-vogue/|website=Magnum Photos}}

Henriques photographed Malcolm X during a civil rights protest in New York City in 1963.{{Cite web|title=The civil rights era in photos|url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/photos/civil-rights-era-photos-44420050/image-47460629|access-date=2020-11-08|website=ABC News|language=en}} One of these photos was published by Essence in a 2020 reconsideration of Malcolm X's legacy on the fifty-fifth anniversary of his assassination.{{Cite web|title=The Legacy Of Malcolm X: 55 Years Later|url=https://www.essence.com/news/malcolm-x-legacy-55-years-later/|access-date=2020-11-08|website=Essence|language=en-US}}

Henriques and fellow Magnum photographer Burt Glinn arrived in Cuba just as Fidel Castro's forces closed in on Havana in January 1959. They shared a car out of Havana to make contact with the approaching rebels and documented their rise to power. Henriques captured images of a cigar-chomping Castro, his first press conference as prime minister, and pitching at a baseball game.{{Cite web|date=2016-11-26|title=A Life in Pictures: Fidel Castro, 1926-2016|url=https://staging.magnum-dev.com/newsroom/politics/magnum-photographers-fidel-castro-life-in-pictures/|access-date=2020-11-09|website=Magnum Photos|language=en-US}} His photo of Castro and his supporters led a 1963 New York Times Magazine essay on Cuba by Senator George McGovern.{{Cite news|last=McGovern|first=George|date=May 19, 1963|title=Is Castro An Obsession With Us?|work=The New York Times Magazine|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1963/05/19/issue.html}}

Henriques returned to Cuba in 1961 to cover the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs invasion. He captured several images of Fidel Castro inspecting wreckage on the battlefield. He also reported on the Castro government's literacy program.{{Cite news|date=August 29, 1961|title=Cuba Joins Illiteracy Battle|work=Milwaukee Journal|url=https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2%3A1477BBDEA50EB75C%40GB3NEWS-159ECA1DFA0CDF5B%402437541-159EC8BC1FBD2724%4020-159EC8BC1FBD2724%40?h=2&fname=&mname=&lname=&kwinc=%22Bob%20Henriques%22&kwexc=&rgfromDate=1950&rgtoDate=1965&formDate=&formDateFlex=exact&dateType=range&processingtime=&addedFrom=&addedTo=&sid=nambuiqecnicnipryltuynkyyrxgyrvd_wma-gateway005_1604538757213}}

He maintained relations with sources in Cuba and was interviewed by the Central Intelligence Agency in 1964 regarding the Movimiento Democrata Cristiano, an anti-Castro organization on the island.{{Cite web|date=March 31, 1964|title=Movimiento Democrata Cristiano|url=https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32578799.pdf}}{{Cite web|date=March 19, 1964|title=Movimiento Democrata Cristiano|url=https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32578797.pdf}}

Henriques is credited with several record album cover photos:{{Cite web|title=Bob Henriques|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/2411441-Bob-Henriques|access-date=2020-11-06|website=Discogs|language=en}}

• Soliloquy by Erroll Garner released in 1957
• Drums of Passion by Olatunji! released in 1960
• The Brothers Four by The Brothers Four released in 1960
• Brubeck on Campus by The Dave Brubeck Quartet released in 1972
• Bossa Nova U.S.A. by The Dave Brubeck Quartet released in 1963. Henriques' cover art is a shot from above of Dave Brubeck lying across the front seat of a convertible.{{Cite web|title=The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Bossa Nova U.S.A.|url=https://www.discogs.com/The-Dave-Brubeck-Quartet-Bossa-Nova-USA/release/12201081|access-date=2020-11-06|website=Discogs|language=en}}

His photos have appeared in several books including:

• Marilyn by Magnum, by Gerry Badger{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/768166381|title=Marilyn by Magnum|date=2012|publisher=Prestel|others=Badger, Gerry., Magnum Photos.|isbn=978-3-7913-4664-9|location=Munich|oclc=768166381}}
• The Fifties: Photographs of America, by Eve Arnold{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11134510|title=The Fifties : photographs of America|date=1985|publisher=Pantheon Books|others=Arnold, Eve.|isbn=0-394-72720-7|edition=1st|location=New York|oclc=11134510}}
• Marilyn: A Biography, by Norman Mailer{{Cite book|last=Mailer, Norman.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/708987|title=Marilyn : a biography|date=1973|publisher=[Grosset & Dunlap]|others=Hurlburt, Allen, 1910-1983|isbn=0-448-01029-1|location=[New York]|oclc=708987}}
• Free at Last: A History of the Civil Rights Movement and those Who Died in the Struggle, by Sara Bullard{{Cite book|last=Bullard, Sara.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26930766|title=Free at last : a history of the Civil Rights Movement and those who died in the struggle|date=1993|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=0-19-508381-4|location=New York|oclc=26930766}}
• All The People: Since 1945, by Joy Hakim{{Cite book|last=Hakim, Joy.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/958573277|title=All the People : Since 1945.|date=2010|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-998911-9|edition=4th|location=New York|oclc=958573277}}
• Dance For Export, by Naima Prevots{{Cite book|last=Prevots, Naima, 1935-|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/48138711|title=Dance for export : cultural diplomacy and the Cold War|date=1998|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|isbn=0-585-37080-X|location=[Middletown, Conn.]|oclc=48138711}}
• Che Guevara, by David Sandison{{Cite book|last=Sandison, David.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38242269|title=Che Guevara|date=1997|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin|isbn=0-312-18273-2|location=New York|oclc=38242269}}

Henriques' photographed a number of important political figures. His portrait of Senator Robert F. Kennedy appeared on the inside front cover of Life Magazine's Robert F. Kennedy, An American Legacy published in 2018 to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the assassination.{{Cite book|url=https://www.scribd.com/book/442430899/LIFE-Robert-F-Kennedy-BAZ-Billing-An-American-Legacy-50-Years-Later|title=Robert F. Kennedy (BAZ Billing): An American Legacy, 50 Years Later|language=en}} He photographed then Senator John F. Kennedy campaigning for the presidency in 1960.{{Cite web|title=The Rise of Camelot (20060120) {{!}} Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis {{!}} John F. Kennedy|url=https://www.scribd.com/document/76520085/The-Rise-of-Camelot-20060120|access-date=2020-11-08|website=Scribd|language=en}}

His work for Life Magazine included photos for articles on corruption in New York State,{{Cite news|last=Paul|first=Welch|date=April 5, 1963|title=Corruption Uncorked In New York|page=22|work=Life Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TkkEAAAAMBAJ&q=Bob+Henriques&pg=PA5}} gangs in New York City,{{Cite news|date=August 12, 1957|title=Teen-Age Burst Of Brutality|work=Life Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LT8EAAAAMBAJ&q=Bob+Henriques&pg=PA2}} an abortive effort by the Cuban government to overthrow dictator Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic,{{Cite news|date=August 17, 1959|title=Duped Into Bloody Castro Fiasco|work=Life Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R0gEAAAAMBAJ&q=Bob+Henriques&pg=PA2}} and organized crime in the United States.{{Cite news|last=Brean|first=Herbert|date=June 1, 1959|title=How The Big Roundup Was Run|work=Life Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YEkEAAAAMBAJ&q=Bob+Henriques&pg=PA2}}

He photographed a number of other notables for other projects including authors Margaret Case Harriman,{{Cite news|date=August 8, 1966|title=Margaret Case Harriman Dies; Wrote of Algonquin Round Table|work=New York Times|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/08/08/79310730.html?pageNumber=27}} Jay Richard Kennedy,{{Cite news|last=Poore|first=Charles|date=December 8, 1959|title=Books of the Times|work=New York Times|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/12/08/89308596.html?pageNumber=43}} and Cameron Hawley,{{Cite news|last=Hawley|first=Cameron|date=December 11, 1955|title=Walk Tour Own Path|work=Baltimore Sun|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/374880028/?terms=%22Bob%2BHenriques%22}} evangelist Billy Graham,{{Cite news|last=Graham|first=Billy|date=April 21, 1957|title=Why New York Is My Greatest Challenge|work=Birmingham News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/574890335/?terms=%22Bob%2BHenriques%22}} Mohawk activist Kahn-Tineta Horn,{{Cite book|last=Palmer, Bryan D.|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/777371689|title=Canada's 1960s : the ironies of identity in a rebellious era|date=2009|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-1-4426-8747-9|location=Toronto|oclc=777371689}} and Marian Javits.{{Cite news|date=April 2, 1962|title=White House to Sparkle At Congress Reception|work=Philadelphia Inquirer|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/178620133/?terms=%22Bob%2BHenriques%22}}

While his focus was photojournalism, Henriques' work has been recognized as fine art and been exhibited in a number of museum shows. Among those were:

• "Life as Legend" a Marilyn Monroe retrospective that appeared at the Boca Raton Museum of Art{{Cite news|date=February 23, 2007|title=Life as Legend|work=Miami Herald|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/655588095/?terms=%22Bob%2BHenriques%22}} and the Dayton Art Institute{{Cite news|date=April 22, 2007|title=Marilyn|work=Dayton Daily News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/411178044/?terms=%22Bob%2BHenriques%22}} in 2007
• "Marilyn: Legende, Mythos und Ikone" at the Kunsthaus in Hamburg, Germany, in 2006{{Cite web|title=Bob Henriques - artist, news & exhibitions - photography-now.com|url=http://photography-now.com/artist/bob-henriques|access-date=2020-11-04|website=photography-now.com}}
• "50 años sin Marilyn" at the University of Huelva, in Huelva, Spain in 2012{{Cite web|date=2012-02-17|title=Marilyn Monroe vista por los fotógrafos de Magnum|url=https://www.europapress.es/andalucia/fundacion-cajasol-00621/noticia-marilyn-monroe-vista-fotografos-magnum-20120217143338.html|access-date=2020-11-09|publisher=Europa Press}}
• "I Wanna be Loved by You: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe" at the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach in 2006{{Cite news|date=March 19, 2006|title=I Wanna be Loved by You: Photographs of Marilyn Monroe|work=Miami Herald|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/653854718/?terms=%22Bob%2BHenriques%22}}
• "Protest!" a selection of Magnum photographs of protest at the Milk Gallery in New York in 2017{{Cite web|title=Protest ! • Magnum Photos|url=https://www.magnumphotos.com/events/event/protest/|access-date=2020-11-10|website=Magnum Photos|language=en-US}}
• "Magnum Style" at the Staley-Wise Gallery in 2004{{Cite web|title=- Magnum Style - Exhibitions - Staley-Wise Gallery|url=https://www.staleywise.com/exhibitions/magnum-style|access-date=2020-11-04|website=www.staleywise.com}}
• In 2009 his work was included in an exhibition at the Magnum Print Room in London to consider the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban revolution{{Cite web|title=Aesthetica Magazine - The 50th Anniversary of the Cuban Revolution|url=https://aestheticamagazine.com/the-50th-anniversary-of-the-cuban-revolution/|access-date=2020-11-05|website=Aesthetica Magazine|language=en-GB}}
• "Planet Football" at the Cinémathèque québécoise in Montreal{{Cite news|last=Howell|first=Steven|date=June 26, 2006|title=Cinematheque gets into gallery mode|work=The Gazette|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=62654465&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjQyNTg3NjkwOSwiaWF0IjoxNjA0NzA5Mzk3LCJleHAiOjE2MDQ3OTU3OTd9.1CkytVidgBn23keL4HWlxF50KooJ5CwoG--6CQdYf84}}

A box of Henriques' photos is part of the Magnum Photos, Inc. archive housed at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.{{Cite web|title=Magnum Photos, Inc.: A Preliminary Inventory of Its Collection in the Photography Collection at the Harry Ransom Center|url=https://norman.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadid=00502|access-date=2020-11-05|website=norman.hrc.utexas.edu}}

Henriques was born in New York City, New York on February 1, 1930.{{Cite web|title=Births Reported In 1930 - Borough of Manhattan| website=Ancestry.com |url=https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/61457/images/47769_b353815-00167?treeid=&personid=&hintid=&queryId=cbc812991cdaac9728af9bb5858e60fc&usePUB=true&_phsrc=GcU112&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&_ga=2.121213896.1377987907.1604430732-1751512704.1540844615&pId=3416165}} He was the only child of Granville and Pearl Henriques, who were immigrants from Jamaica.{{Cite web|title=Jamaica Civil Registration Birth, Marriage, and Death Records|url=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=9910&h=2869649&ssrc=pt&tid=111327122&pid=142084615433&usePUB=true}} During his years as a photojournalist he lived in New York City.

He was married to Marjorie Eulalee Henriques in 1965.{{Cite news|date=June 6, 2008|title=Henriques, Marjorie|work=Miami Herald|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=62646799&fcfToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJmcmVlLXZpZXctaWQiOjY1NzExMDA4MSwiaWF0IjoxNjA0NzEwMTY4LCJleHAiOjE2MDQ3OTY1Njh9.-FUwXxvVO33Zy6iyipZTYhCvkqWmo_JsLC8Tt_IU3kA}} She was born on January 24, 1935, in Jamaica and naturalized as an American citizen in 1990.{{Cite web|date=February 6, 1990|title=Petition for Naturalization|url=https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1850/images/31894_620303988_0149-00201?pId=384640|website=Ancestry.com}} She died on June 4, 2008, in Homestead, Florida.{{Cite web|title=Social Security Death Index|url=https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=3693&h=82663122&tid=&pid=&queryId=331962972ec017302903c237b4176945&usePUB=true&_phsrc=GcU200&_phstart=successSource|website=Ancestry.com}}

Henriques gave up photojournalism in the mid-1960s. He went on to run a candle manufacturing business in Jamaica, but lived in Homestead, Florida. He died there in 2011.{{Cite web|title=Bob Henriques {{!}} Magnum Consortium|url=https://www.magnumconsortium.net/people/HEB|access-date=2020-11-11|website=www.magnumconsortium.net}}

He was the godfather of American author Kyle Roderick.

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• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2i__9veOxA Henriques interviewed about Marilyn Monroe]

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