How best to give meaning to the word “presence” in a discussion about photography, a word layered with implication and underlying tension? In the case of a dictionary meaning, presence is “something felt or believed to be present,” a perception not u...

Max Hirshfeld
Max Hirshfeld is an American photographer who grew up in a house full of books and music to parents who survived Auschwitz and settled in small-town Alabama. His father, a child prodigy who played piano with The Warsaw Philharmonic at the age of nine, pushed him to explore the arts with a curiosity born from generations of intellectual and artistic pursuits.