A book project with photographs and lyrics by Andreas J. Hirsch The Story of the Book While photographing at an old villa from the late fin de siècle on the hills above Vienna in 2016, in the final months before its demolition, Andreas J. Hirsch immerses himself in memories from the years of his youth in the 1970s, when he was a regular guest at that house. Combining photography and poetry, he reconnects with his early encounters with literature and music, reflecting on the transformations and experiences involved with coming of age, all interwoven with the distinct character of that very house, which is about to vanish. “Walking In Your Sleep” is an ode to collective and personal “lost time” […]
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“Life and work of Ludwig van Beethoven are surrounded by a myriad of legends and fictitious stories, of heroic and idealistic accounts and attempts to possess him. Beethoven’s lifetime at the turn of the 18th to the 19th century may – a good two hundred years later – seem alien and remote, and yet a lot of it might seem surprisingly familiar and timeless today. Persistent and serious research as well as courageous and inquisitive artistic approaches shed more and more light on Beethoven’s life, opening up new avenues to his music.” Andreas J. Hirsch (author and photographer), Beethoven in Vienna, Edition Lammerhuber, Baden / VBW, Vienna, 2019 Taking the Theater an der Wien as a starting point, the author […]
HAVE YOU SEEN THIS?A Photographic Odyssey Through Salzburg Exhibition at the Space for Photography at the Fortress / Traklhaus, Salzburg April – July 2019 Opening talk by photography-historian Margit Zuckriegl. Where is the woman in the red coat going? What makes her wander through Salzburg alone? Why does she refuse to re- gard the “postcard-views” of the city and stubbornly looks in the “wrong” direction? Is she fleeing from the camera? Does she look at those places in personal reminiscence? Or is her gaze directed at almost forgotten things or at the suppressed ones? Could it be worth searching ourselves for the things she actually might be seeing? – The series, which has been developed by Andreas J. Hirsch specifically […]
“At the beginning stood the observation that over the last couple of years we see a rising tide of hatred, dominating over love. Of course there has always been love and hate as part of human nature, but this time a delicate balance is getting lost. From small everyday situations to world politics we encounter hatred as the main motive everywhere. In order to contribute to the effort of making love stronger and winning over hate again, I asked artists to allow me to portrait them with an object of importance to them and to tell me about the meaning it carries related to their lives and work and to the topic of LOVE OVER HATE.” Andreas J. Hirsch, 2016 […]
The final Hours of the Cafè-Mentone in ViennaA series by Andreas J. Hirsch Exhibition at HERR LEUTNER, Vienna, November – December 2016 30 May 2016: The last opening day of the Cafè Mentone in Vienna. – When meeting at the Café Mentone, Ronnie Niedermeyer and Andreas J. Hirsch were shocked to learn that this was the closing day of the Café. As the news sank in, Andreas J. Hirsch started photographing along their ongoing conversation until they left the Café.
Exhibition at Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, AustriaSeptember 2015 Reassuming the role of the photographer as a kind of post-flaneur, Andreas J. Hirsch cast a highly personal view on the city of Linz in the summer of 2015 with the aim to reflect upon the posturban condition as such. Re-Reading the City follows hidden traces of an inner city behind the obvious one, the different cultural cities and their specific codes embedded in the same spaces. Two photographs from this series made it to the finalists for a postal stamp competition of the Austrian Post in cooperation with the newspaper Die Presse in the years 2018 and 2019.
THE NOCTURNES OF DAY is the photographic exploration of the inner terrain that connects Andreas J. Hirsch with his father August Hirsch (1924–2010). Exhibitions at eyes on – Month of Photography Vienna, November 2014, and at Gallery Cult, Alghero, Sardegna, July 2016
A Photographic Investigation Into the Gesture and Style of Taking Pictures Exhibition at the Lomography Embassy Lounge, Vienna, 2014