Artist Books:
Two Corpses: American Architecture of the Twentieth Century Mashups, 2019
The Prophecy of Rothman, 2018
Children of a Vanished World, 2015
The Practical Exemplar of Architecture, 2013
Green Book, 1970
Morgan, 1968
Image Portfolios:
Shining Brow, 2006
Manifest Destiny & The American West, 2005
Unseen Terror, 2005
World in a Jar, 2004
Architecture of Landscape, 1999
Underground City, 1977
Writing:
Articles
Artist Talks as eBooks
Photography Books
Book Reviews
Interviews
Buffalo and WNY
Contact:
New:
Ghosts: French Holocaust Children: A Conversation with Robert Hirsch by Linda Gellman, The Jewish Journal, May 2019
Getting to Know Your Art Community: Robert Hirsch
BuffaloRising.com
by Tina Dillman July 13, 2016
CEPA Gallery’s Ghosts: French Holocaust Children on view now
The Jewish Journal of Western New York, July, 2016
On View/Ghosts from History Buffalo Spree Magazine, June 2016
Review: Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography Since 1960
by Professor Elizabeth Otto, History of Photography, May 2015
"Les Cookson: Maker of Historic Optic Devices"
The Handmade Photograph, #3, May 2015
Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography Since 1960,
from The Handmade Photograph, April 2014.
A Conversation About Photography; A. D. Coleman and Robert Hirsch
Keith Carter: Transcendental Realist
Brian Ulrich's Copia: A Tale of American Plenty
Brian Taylor and the Photographic Narrative
MIA FINEMAN
Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop
Arthur Tress: Documentary Fiction
Photo Technique, January/February 2013
Carl Chiarenza: Transmutation, Turning Detritus into Splendor
Photo Technique, November/December 2012
The Fantastical Machines of Wayne Martin Belger
Photo Technique, September/October 2012
Stephen Berkman: Documentary Photographer of the Mind
Photo Technique, July/August 2012
Afghan Box Camera Project
Photo Technique, March/April 2012
Daniel Beltra: Photography and the Environment
REVIEW
Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970–1980
Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change
An Interview with Robert Hirsch
by Tom Persinger
Milton Rogovin: Buffalo Troublemaker
By Robert Hirsch
From The Photo Review, March/April 2011
“CEPA GALLERY: A DIRECTOR'S HISTORY OF AN ARTIST SPACE AT THIRTY”
Interviews with CEPA's Directors
Light Work, Contact Sheet #131 www.lightwork.org
(Adobe PDF 24MB)
Carl Chiarenza: Internal Landscapes, Photo Review, V. 28, No. 4, 2009
“Tom Persinger: The Genesis of F295,” Photo Ed, Spring, 2009
FREE FOR ALL
Eight artists give the online visitor their artists' books.
In Search of the Pleasure Principle (Adobe PDF)
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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THE POWER OF RESILIENCE AND HOPE - PHOTOGRAPHY AND THE HOLOCAUST: THEN & NOW
Curated by Robert Hirsch
CEPAGALLERY.ORG - - MIRABOPRESS.COM - - WNYBOOKARTS.ORG
The Holocaust was the first mass genocide to be simultaneously photographed by perpetrators, bystanders, resistors, and victims. History is left with a unique visual inventory of competing narratives and memories that curator and historian Robert Hirsch has been investigating for years.
The Power of Resilience and Hope - Photography & the Holocaust: Then and Now will feature 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.
The show aims to bridge growing divides that threaten our future with programming that inspires a cross-generational dialogue and creates a forum for artists and individuals of diverse lived experiences to come together and learn from one another with the intent of pushing back on hatred and racism. Community programming, public art, youth and adult workshops, discussion groups, and speakers will allow individuals to engage with the past as a way to inform the present and future. Community partners of the exhibition include the Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo, the Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo, UB's Department of Jewish Thought, the Clean Air Coalition of Western New York, Mirabo Press, and Journey's End Refugee Services.
The exhibition has been in planning for many years, long before the current events began to unfold, and is intended to reject hate and promote understanding and empathy among all groups of people. With art's ability to foster dialogue, CEPA is inviting the community to engage with the exhibition and reflect on the experiences of everyday individuals caught in the crossfire of hatred. CEPA and its partners stand against all forms of racism and violence.
Part one of the exhibition opened on January 20th, 2024 at CEPA Gallery.
Satellite exhibitions will be on display at Mirabo Press from January 25th through March 1st and at Book Arts from January 25th through March 16th.
Exhibition receptions will be held at Mirabo Press on Thursday, January 24th, 6:00 - 9:00 pm and at Book Arts on Thursday February 15th from 5:00 - 8:00 pm.
Part two of the exhibition will open on March 23th, 2024, from 5:00 to 8:00 PM at CEPA Gallery.
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Light and Lens Thinking About Photography in the Digital Age, 4E
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. Exploring history, methods, and theory, this text offers classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators, approaches for analyzing, discussing, and writing about photographs, and tools to critically explore and make images with increased visual literacy.
https://www.routledge.com/Light-and-Lens-Thinking-About-Photography-in-the-Digital-Age/Hirsch/p/book/9780367771935
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Pandemic Gazette
ROBERT HIRSCH
Made throughout this historic COVID-19 crisis, the Pandemic Gazette is a photographic interpretation of how mainline American print media has visually communicated these economic, health, political, racial, and social justice events.
Copies of the Pandemic Gazette and its images are available for distribution and exhibition. Inquire for details.
Pandemic Gazette PDF
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Light and Lens, 3rd Edition
By Robert Hirsch and Greg Erf
May 2018
424 pages | 350 Color Illustrations
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About the Book
Quickly and simply puts you on a personal path of expressive imagemaking.
The new edition of this pioneering book allows students to acquire an essential and fluid foundation for digital photography. Fully updated, it clearly and concisely covers the fundamental “forever” concepts of imagemaking, how to use digital technology to create compelling images, and how to output and preserve images in the digital world. This expanded gateway to learning investigates history, theory, and methods, offering classroom-tested assignments and exercises from leading photographic educators, approaches for analyzing, discussing, and writing about photographs, and tools to critically examine and make images with increased visual literacy.
New to this edition:
Completely revised, updated, and simplified to reflect technological advances that promotes direct and strategic imagemaking
Expanded coverage of cell phone/mobile photography
Enlarged treatment of careers options
Inspiring images with artist commentary by 250 international photographers that encourages one to discover their own visual path.
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Photographic Possibilities
The Expressive Use of Concepts, Ideas, Materials, and Processes, 4th Edition
By Robert Hirsch
© 2018 – Focal Press
280 pages | 200 Color Illustrations
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About the Book
The long-awaited new edition of this seminal text features clear, reliable, step-by-step instructions on innovative alternative and traditional photographic processes. Over and above a full update and revision of the technical data, there are new sections on digital negative making, electrophotography, and self-publishing. Foremost practioners, including Edward Bateman, Dan Burkholder, Tom Carpenter, Mark Osterman, France Scully Osterman, Jill Skupin Burkholder, Brian Taylor, and Laurie Tümer, have contributed their expertise to this edition. Perfect for practitioners or students of handmade photography, the book covers classic black-and-white film and paper processes, hand-coated processes like Cyanotype, and Platinum/Palladium. Also featured is an enhanced section on gum bichromate, invaluable instruction on workflow, and the integration of digital, promoting the effective union of one’s concepts, materials, and processes. The book showcases work and commentary from more than 150 international artists.
www.routledge.com
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Seizing the Light
A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography, 3rd Edition
By Robert Hirsch
© 2017 – Focal Press
596 pages | 370 Color Illustrations
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About the Book
The definitive history of photography book, Seizing the Light: A Social & Aesthetic History of Photography delivers the fascinating story of how photography as an art form came into being, and its continued development, maturity, and transformation.
Covering the major events, practitioners, works, and social effects of photographic practice, Robert Hirsch provides a concise and discerning chronological account of Western photography. This fundamental starting place shows the diversity of makers, inventors, issues, and applications, exploring the artistic, critical, and social aspects of the creative process. The third edition includes up-to-date information about contemporary photographers like Cindy Sherman and Yang Yongliang, and comprehensive coverage of the digital revolution, including the rise of mobile photography, the citizen as journalist, and the role of social media.
Highly illustrated with full-color images and contributions from hundreds of artists around the world, Seizing the Light serves as a gateway to the history of photography. Written in an accessible style, it is perfect for students newly engaging with the practice of photography and for experienced photographers wanting to contextualize their own work.
www.routledge.com
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Robert Hirsch's Ghosts: French Holocaust Children catalog is now available for free download at www.lightresearch.net
Ghosts is a three-dimensional photo-based installation that acts as an ethereal commemoration for the 11,000 Jewish children who were deported from France to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps in railway boxcar convoys. The 30-page catalog, sponsored by CEPA Gallery, features project images and installation views plus an essay: "Before Ghosts: A Brief History of Anti-Semitism" by Dr. Patricia E. Behre, Associate Professor of History at Fairfield University.
The project is available to travel to your institution. For details contact: Hirsch@LightResearch.net
Past Exhibitions:
Ghosts: French Holocaust Children Futernick Art Gallery of the Dave and Mary Alper JCC in Miami, February 12 - March 19, 2017
Ghosts: French Holocaust Children Martin Art Gallery, Baker Center for the Arts at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, PA, October 2 - November 13, 2016
Ghosts: French Holocaust Children CEPA Gallery’s Big Orbit Project Space exhibition, June 11, 2016 through July 24, 2016
Ghosts Viewer Comments
I admire your willingness to take on broad cultural/historical subjects and collaborate beyond the narrow field of fine artists-very refreshing. Ghosts gets to that rare place of having real emotional resonance. Ghosts reminds me of when I first saw Robert Frank’s "The Americans,” and his broad look and critique of American culture. In present times, few artists could or would dare to define such a big and difficult "concept." The art world, often dominated by internal, esoteric, and puny concerns, needs to see such work! Congratulations on a great and massive project. I hope it travels long and far.
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www.focalpress.com