Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography Since 1960

Transformational Imagemaking: Handmade Photography Since 1960 surveys significant work and ideas that have constituted the phenomenon of handmade photography from its resurrection in the counter-culture of the 1960s to the photographic experimentation of the present day.

Robert Hirsch is a photographic imagemaker, historian, and writer. Former executive director of CEPA Gallery and now director of Light Research in Buffalo, NY, he has published scores of articles about visual culture and has interviewed many significant photographers of our time. His books include Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age; Exploring Color Photography: From Film to Pixels; Photographic Possibilities: The Expressive Use of Equipment, Ideas, Materials, and Processes; and Seizing the Light: A Social History of Photography. A former associate editor for Digital Camera (UK) and Photovision, Hirsch is a regular contributor to Photo Technique. He has also written for Afterimage, exposure, History of Photography, The Photo Review, and World Book Encyclopedia, among others. He has curated over 200 exhibitions, and had many one-person and group shows of his own work. For details visit: www.lightresearch.net

The Photographer's Hand. West Coast Roots. Ground Breaking Exhibitions. East Coast Makers. Progression. Evolution. Inferences.