Robert Hirsch Information

Robert Hirsch offers a visual overview and discussion about the shaping forces of his pictorial sculpture World in a Jar: War & Trauma, which curates and re-imagines key components from historical and original images to explore the workings of our collective societal memory involving loss, popular culture, religion, tragedy, and wickedness over the past four centuries. This project serves as the conceptual foundation for his latest book, Light and Lens: Photography in the Digital Age, recently published by Elsevier's Focal Press. Both works create a visual structure that facilitates open thinking and dialogue about our world and how to translate complex intellectual models into comprehensible visual language. Both projects offer a flexible framework that is accessible to diverse audiences, engages people with an open format, and encourages multiple interpretations that advance pondering the Big Issues that make up who we are.