STUDIO

Max Hirshfeld | DC (202) 262-1515 max@maxpix.com

PRODUCER

Nina Mason | DC (202) 262-1411 nina@maxpix.com

SYNDICATION

Gallery Stock (212) 356-0099

Redux Pictures (212) 253-0399

GALLERIES

Arnika Dawkins Gallery (404) 333-0312 agd@adawkinsgallery.com

Robert Klein Gallery (617) 267-7997 robert@robertkleingallery.com

ORGANIZATIONS

Images For Humanity

COPYRIGHT

© All images, Max Hirshfeld 2023

ABOUT

Max Hirshfeld is recognized as a master at capturing decisive moments while revealing the humanity of his subjects. In a series titled One Shot, he captured individual pedestrians in a single frame of film in major cities across the United States. His 2008 series — Looking at Looking — documents visitors as they viewed world-class works at The National Gallery of Art. And in 2013, Hirshfeld shot Illuminaries, a series which highlights key players in the Washington, DC arts and cultural scene. In 2018, Hirshfeld was part of Du Quotidien — a team project commissioned by Art in Embassies, US Department of State — and contributed over forty portraits of university students for the new US Embassy in Niger.

Hirshfeld was born in North Carolina in 1951, grew up in Decatur, Alabama, and moved to Washington, D.C. to study photography at George Washington University, graduating in 1973. After five years as a staff photographer with the Smithsonian, he opened a studio shooting for advertising, design, and editorial clients. His fine art work has been shown at major galleries in Boston, Toronto, and Washington, as well as at the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Kreeger Museum and is part of the permanent collection of the City of Washington, the National Portrait Gallery, and Yad Vashem Museum. He has won silver and bronze awards from the Prix de la Photographie Paris and been featured in Communication Arts, American Photography, and GRAPHIS. His editorial work has been published in The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Time, Vanity Fair, and other national publications.

His first book Sweet Noise: Love in Wartime was published by Damiani in 2019. In it, Hirshfeld shares photographs of his mother's first return to Poland after forty-six years along with impressions of growing up under the shadow of the Holocaust. Additionally, through more than eighty letters, Sweet Noise tells the love story of his parents who met in a Polish ghetto, survived Auschwitz only to then endure a grueling three-year separation before finally settling in America. Along with Curatorial Exhibitions Sweet Noise: Love During the Holocaust is in development as a traveling exhibition starting in 2024.

WRITINGS / PODCASTS / INTERVIEWS

BLIND Magazine Podcast - Frames Magazine George Washington University Alumni In Focus

RECOGNITION

AARP Magazine American Photography Architecture Masterprize Blind Magazine Communication Arts Creative Quarterly Dodho Magazine Eyemazing

FotoNostrum Magazine Frames Magazine Graphis International Photography Awards Jewish Book Council Jewish Book Week Leica Fotografie International L'oeil de la Photographie

New Yorker New York Times Magazine One Eyeland Photo District News Photo Lucida The Jewish Chronicle Washingtonian Magazine Washington Post