In the current exhibition at Sweden House — the Swedish Embassy in Washington, DC — twenty-five examples from the career of a man with exacting vision and precise control of what he chose to photograph is on full display in a space painted black, all...

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.
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