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Robert J. Hirsch (born 1949) is an American artist, curator, educator, historian, and author. He is best known for his clear and concise writing about color and digital imaging, and the history of photography, as well as an advocate for photographic makers who offer a haptic, expressionist interpretation of their subject matter. His books include ''Transformational Imaging: Handmade Photography Since 1960, Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels, Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive use of Equipment, Ideas, Materials, and Processes, Seizing the Light: A Social History of Photography'', and ''Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age Light and Lens'' has been published in Chinese- and German-language editions. His work, both visual and written, is signed as simply Robert Hirsch. Of ''Light and Lens'', the photography journal ''Afterimage'' states, “Robert Hirsch clearly pitches ''Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age'' as an introductory college-level photography textbook that is foremost an idea book rather than a software or camera manual. In line with this philosophy, Hirsch ensures that critical seeing and aesthetic values are amply addressed alongside the technical. Thus, chapters on the history of photography, visual foundations, and symbolism lead off the book, and he closes with thoughtful chapters concerning seeing with a camera and thinking and writing about images. This emphasis is a refreshing and stimulating approach for a photographic textbook.” Hirsch has published scores of articles about visual culture and interviewed numerous eminent photographers and curators. He has been the Associate Editor of ''Photovision'' and ''Digital Camera'' (UK), and also a contributing writer for ''Afterimage, CEPA Journal, Light Work’s Contact Sheet, Digital Camera, exposure, The Encyclopedia of 19th Photography, The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, Fotophile, The Handmade Photograph, History of Photography, Photo Ed'' (Canada), ''The Photo Review, Photovision, Photo Technique, World Book Encyclopedia'', and numerous regional publications including ''Buffalo Spree'' and ''FY''. Hirsch’s work has been shown in over 200 solo and group exhibitions in North America and Europe including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY, The Noorderlicht Photofestival, Groningen, The Netherlands, and the Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY. During the past decade, Hirsch’s visual projects, such as ''World in a Jar: War & Trauma, Manifest Destiny & the American West, Unseen Terror: A Culture of Fear, The Sixties Cubed,'' and ''Ghosts: French Holocaust Children'', have explored the interrelationship of historical images with memory and time. Hirsch has realized this by rephotographing and recontextualizing images into three-dimensional installations in order to investigate ethnic violence, genocide, religious intolerance, and war. On ''World in a Jar, Buffalo News'' art critic Richard Huntington wrote, “In the jar installation, even with its staggering array of images, no image has prominence. That's because Hirsch levels the cultural playing field. Whether he's dealing with a Nazi atrocity, some appalling medical procedure, Frankenstein or Bart Simpson, he gives every image visual parity. But – and this is key – it is done with no cynicism, no black irony, no post-mod reductionism. He lays out these images as equals to jolt the mind into emotional attention. In Hirsch's hands the mixing of the trivial and the serious, the accidental and horrifyingly deliberate, make it seem that every piece is part and parcel of some overarching human drama larger than the sum of these parts.” Of his earlier work, ''The Architecture of Landscape'', Jeffrey Hoone, Executive Director of Light Work, wrote, “Hirsch gives the viewer a variety of issues, concerns, and techniques to think about and digest. He massages meaning out of every nuance in the series from the choice of subject to the scale of the images, and each decision that he has made seems to open up opportunities for further investigation.” From his recent exhibition ''The Sixties Cubed'' critic and artist Bruce Adams wrote, “At the core of this work—and perhaps of all Hirsch’s art in recent memory—is () Gysin’s cut-up technique, which utilizes the element of chance in its random rearrangement of sentence fragments.” Hirsch uses this to its fullest by creating “a free-flowing account of a decade as seen through the images it produced, resulting in fragmented nonlinear multiple narratives. Hirsch sees this as a metaphor for ‘how we live in a world of assembled fragments that unfold over time.’ Of course, each time the work is mounted it results in a different random arrangement presumably evoking a multitude of spontaneous associations.” Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1949, Hirsch has a BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology (1971) and an MFA from Arizona State University (1974). Former Executive Director and Chief Curator of CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, founder of Southern Light Gallery, and one of the co-founders of Northlight Gallery, he has curated numerous exhibitions and public art projects. Previously he was a professor of photography at Amarillo College, SUNY/Buffalo, and SUNY/Brockport, where he was also the Director of Graduate Studies in the visual arts and Associate Director of the Visual Studies Workshop. Since 2000 Hirsch has led Light Research, a Buffalo-based consulting firm that provides professional services to the photographic arts field. ==References== * Julia Bradshaw, “Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age,” Afterimage, July/Aug., V. 36, No. 1, 30. * Richard Huntington, (“Making History: Photographer Uses Black and White to Fabricate History,” ) (with image) Buffalo News, Gusto entertainment section, Friday, May 7, 2004. 18 * Jeffrey Hoone, “Robert Hirsch: Artist-in-Residence,” The Light Work Annual, Contact Sheet 107, 4 – 9. * Bruce Adams, (“Hirsch’s Cubic Groove,” ) Buffalo Spree, April 2011, 24 – 25. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Robert J. Hirsch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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