Light Research

Light Research is the website of photography scholar and critic Robert Hirsch. It contains an extensive collection of full-text essays, articles, exhibition catalogues, reviews, and interviews by Hirsch. These include, among others: ‘A society of images: constructing a photographic truth’, ‘World in a jar: camera vision as a cultural tool’, ‘On the death of Susan Sontag’, and a series of articles entitled ‘Why people make photographs’.

The front page of the website also occasionally features ‘calls for work’ and news of conferences and symposiums. This will be a useful resource for those seeking free in-depth critical thinking on photography, especially fine art and documentary photography in the United States.