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Exhibition Review

CEPA's Holocaust exhibition: 'I wanted to make the absence present' Co-curator Ruby Merritt describes a work containing more than 2,400 faces of people killed in the Holocaust. It’s part of an ...

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New Edition

Seizing the Light: A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography
4th Edition 
by Robert Hirsch

Covering major events, practitioners, works, and social effects of photographic practice, author Robert Hirsch provides a concise and discerning chronological account of photography, drawing on influential examples. 

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THE POWER OF RESILIENCE AND HOPE – PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE HOLOCAUST: THEN & NOW

Featuring 30 contemporary, regional, and international artists and writers whose works juxtapose and interact with archival material to create new imagery that delves into the complexities of time and space, place and memory, nature, and the devastation of civilized society.

CEPA GALLERY • MIRABO PRESS • WNY BOOK ARTS

VASA Journal on Images and Culture

”Photography and the Holocaust: Then and Now” Editor: Robert Hirsch

A journal theme that examines over a number of essays photography’s changing role in documenting, interpreting, and understanding the Holocaust (Shoah). It assesses how photographs are an element in a larger systemic universe, deriving from multiple personal and community economic/political/psychological/social and technical perspectives, and how these viewpoints affect a photograph’s construction and how this directs its interpretation and circulation.

1 Origins of the Holocaust and Photography’s Role in its Interpretation
2 Nazi Photographic Perspectives
3 Jewish Photographic Perspectives Part 1
4 Jewish & Partisan Photographic Perspectives, Part 2
5 Jewish Photographic Perspectives, Part 3
6 Photographic Perspectives, Part 3, Henryk Ross: The Łódź Ghetto Photographs
7 Liberation
8 AFTERMATH: The Nuremberg Trials
9 AFTERMATH: Displaced Persons (DP) camps, Immigration and Emigration

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Light and Lens: Thinking About Photography in the Digital Age
4th Edition

by Robert Hirsch
with Edward Bateman

The latest edition of this pioneering book allows students to acquire an essential foundation for digital photography. Fully updated, it clearly and concisely covers the fundamental concepts of imagemaking, how to use digital technology to create compelling images, and how to output and preserve images in the digital world.