Max Hirshfeld is an American photographer. He was born in North Carolina in 1951 and grew up in Alabama. He studied photography at George Washington University. After five years as a staff photographer at the Smithsonian, he opened a studio for advertising, design and editorial work.
In 2018 he took part in Du Quotidien, a team project for Art in Embassies at the US Department of State. He contributed over forty portraits of university students for the new US Embassy in Niger.
His first book is Sweet Noise: Love in Wartime (Damiani, 2019). It tells the story of his parents, Polish Jews who survived Auschwitz. The book combines his photographs of his mother's return to Poland in 1993, his own text and over 700 letters his parents wrote to each other after the war. His work is in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery and the Yad Vashem Museum.
