Step into almost any scene in Rebecca Hall’s Passing, a pitch-perfect recreation of Harlem at the height of its vaunted renaissance, and it would be unsurprising for the camera to zoom in on a framed photograph that was shot by James Van Der Zee.&nbs...

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.