Robert Hirsch (b. 1949)

Like the work of Christy Rupp, photographer Robert Hirsch deals with the interplay of conflict between humans and their environment. A published author of photographic theory, Hirsch experiments with the photograph’s role as frozen time and space in his environmental commentary. The exhibited photographs are part of a series which focuses on the combination of natural and cultural environment — the effect of human activities on the natural landscape. By placing the tiny images in a large black field, Hirsch evokes the dislocation of viewing scenes in a darkened theater. This dislocation of the subject scenes captures the confusion of the technological and the picturesque in shaping the environment. —Joan Vita Marotta, 2002