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A Century of Colour Photography: from the autochrome to the digital age
The God of Time
World in a Jar, Quicktime Slideshow and Commentary
Point and Shoot Exhibition Catalog: Curated by Robert Hirsch and David Harrod
- Available as a PDF -
The Photobook: A History (Volume II)
Review by Robert Hirsch
William Christenberry
Book Review by Robert Hirsch
The Muse of Place & Time
An Interview With William Christenberry
Flexible Images: Handmade American Photography, 1969 - 2002 |
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Robert Hirsch: World in a Jar: War & Trauma
Following an aesthetic strategy of search and discovery, World in a Jar: War & Trauma utilizes the camera as a cultural tool to curate and re-imagine key components from historical and original images to explore the workings of our collective societal memory involving loss, popular culture, religion, tragedy, and the nature of evil over the past four centuries.
Using the Shoah as it point of departure, World in a Jar is a free-form sculptural montage that rethinks the customary linear narrative by offering a supermarket of moveable images. The original installation consisted of 850 individual image jars, each one serving as an interchangeable viewing block, allowing it to be a perpetual work in progress that recreates itself each time it is installed. This permits each photograph to not only present its own split-second historical reference, but also informs the context and interpretation of the surrounding images. There are no captions to anchor the images to particular events, which allows the images to transcend their specific time-based circumstances. Rather, images freely float in an ambiguous and enigmatic space, encouraging viewers to interact and expand meanings based on their own experiences. This engagement is a reminder how photographs continue to seduce us into believing that they are objective records, when in fact all images are not what they initially appear to be and require thoughtful interpretation. This open-ended production, emulating how the puzzles and paradoxes of our own memories are constructed, can convey an endless tale about the human condition that exists outside of chronological time.
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WORLD IN A JAR: WAR & TRAUMA Exhibition
JANUARY 24 - April 5, 2008
THE GALLERY AT THE CREATIVE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
5124 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, California 90027-9897 U.S.A.
More info: www.freestylephoto.biz/creativecenter_hirsch.php or 323.660.3460 x121
Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age BOOK SIGNING & ARTIST RECEPTION
JANUARY 24 - 6:00 TO 8:00PM
THE GALLERY AT THE CREATIVE CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
5124 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood, California 90027-9897 U.S.A. More info: 323.660.3460 x121
WORLD IN A JAR: WAR & TRAUMA Spoken Word Performance by Robert Hirsch
January 25th, 7pm at the Art Center College of Design
More info: www.artcenterphoto.com
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Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age is as an introductory text that clearly and concisely instructs people in the fundamental, “forever” aesthetic and technical building blocks necessary to create thought-provoking digitally based photographs and features works of 190 international artists.
Focal Press will sponsor an Industry Seminar: Robert Hirsch, "World in a Jar: Camera Vision as a Cultural Tool." Hirsch's presentation will also discuss the motivating concepts behind his latest book, Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age. Questions and discussion will be welcomed. This event will take place during the Society for Photographic Education's 45th National Conference in Denver, Agents of Change: Art and Advocacy, on Thursday, March 13, 2008 at Adams Mark Hotel, Governor's Square 15, from 12:00 - 1:15 pm.
For details see: http://www.spenational.org/conference/conf2008/schedule_2008.html
World in a Jar: Camera Vision as a Cultural Tool with Robert Hirsch
Sponsored by Focal Press, part of Elsevier
Robert Hirsch offers a visual overview and discussion about the shaping forces of his pictorial sculpture World in a Jar: War & Trauma, which curates and re-imagines key components from historical and original images to explore the workings of our collective societal memory involving loss, popular culture, religion, tragedy, and wickedness over the past four centuries. This project serves as the conceptual foundation for his latest book, Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, recently published by Elsevier's Focal Press. Both works create a visual structure that facilitates open thinking and dialogue about our world and how to translate complex intellectual models into comprehensible visual language. Both projects offer a flexible framework that is accessible to diverse audiences, engages people with an open format, and encourages multiple interpretations that advance pondering the Big Issues that make up who we are.
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World In A Jar: War and Trauma
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A World in the Jar: War and Trauma
After opening at Big Orbit Gallery, World in a Jar has recently been exhibited at South East Center of Contemporary Art, University of Northern Iowa, Parsons School of Design, Wichita Falls Art Museum, and Light Work in Syracuse, New York. Hirsch has also been lecturing about the cultural and personal forces that shaped this project.
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Manifest Destiny & The American West
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Manifest Destiny & The American West is a stylized three-dimensional image catalog representing the infinite and competing geography that has shaped the American culture and psyche from Coronado to today.
Manifest Destiny & the American West
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