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WARRIORS WITHOUT WEAPONS, "Road To Freedom: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1956 - 1968,"
Afterimage V. 36 No. 3, p. 27, Review by Robert Hirsch
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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 f295 Seminar on 21st Century Photography Hosted by B&H Photo
January 18 from 10:30am - 4:30pm at B&H Photo Event Space in New York City
21st Century Photography is a phrase meant to describe the type of photography in which many artists are presently engaged. A 21st century photographic approach includes the use of historic methods, alternative processes, and adaptive techniques. The decision regarding which methods to employ in a project is driven by the artistic vision of the photographer rather than the technical limitation or possibility of the equipment. Terms such as alternative, historic, hand-wrought, DIY (do-it-yourself), and antiquarian have been used to describe this type of work and while those terms can be accurate they are mostly not. The use of any one term greatly simplifies the complexities, combinations, and adaptations which are taking place while at the same time weighing the discussion with preconception and bias. Recognizing that photographic technology has become so sophisticated that, for the most part, it is irrelevant and, in an effort to create something new, many artists are freely inventing and combining techniques and processes from the history of photography to create a new 21st Century Photography. http://www.f295.org
F295: 21st Century Photography Exhibition at Camera Club of New York!
F295 is pleased to announce that the Camera Club of New York will be hosting an exhibition entitled F295: 21st Century Photography from January 16 - 20, 2009.
This show coincides with the F295 Seminar at B&H Photo on January 18 and features work from a selection of artists who have been involved with the various F295 events over the past 2 1/2 years.
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Gateway: Selections from the Collection
Nov. 21, 2008 - April 19, 2009
The new Burchfield Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College opened to the public on November 22 with a continuous 31-hour grand opening celebration.
http://www.yournewburchfieldpenney.com
View the Burchfield Penney 360
The exhibition will features contemporary work from the Burchfield Penney's collection, including: sculpture, representational and non-representational painting, photography, drawings, prints, video and mixed media installations. Featured works by Cindy Sherman, Robert Longo, John Pfahl, Russell Drisch, and Robert Hirsch.
The Buffalo State College Dance Ensemble(right) was among several performers Saturday during the 31-hour opening celebration of the Burchfield Penney Art Center in front of Robert Hirsch's World in a Jar installation. The new state-of-the-art facility is located on the Buffalo State College campus.
The city’s newest hot spot: An arts center
By Mark Sommer, News Staff Reporter
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/502363.html
Shock and Awe
Exhibits large in scope make for an engaging show
BY COLIN DABKOWSKI, News Arts Writer
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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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Light & Lens: Photography in the Digital Age
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.
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SEIZING THE LIGHT: A Social History of Photography, Second Edition
Seizing the Light: A Social History of Photography provides a thought-provoking, accurate, and accessible introduction to the photographic arts for all readers. With stunning images and commentary by hundreds of international artists, the text clearly and concisely provides the building blocks necessary to critically explore photographic history from the photographers' eye, an aesthetic point of view.
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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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