Russell Hart

Russell Hart’s photographic work has been widely exhibited at galleries and museums that include the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Newport Art Museum, Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art, the New Britain Museum of American Art, and the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts. His prints are held in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY, and various other collections.

Hart has taught photography at Tufts University and the Boston Museum School, and currently teaches in the Master’s in digital photography program at New York’s School of Visual Arts. He was for many years Executive Editor of American Photo magazine, where he wrote about photography for several decades. His writing on photographic subjects has also appeared in The New York Times, Men's Journal, and Us magazines, among other publications.

Hart was a member of the American Photo editorial team that won the American Society of Magazine Editors’ 1994 National Magazine Award for General Excellence. He received the 2003 Gold Medal for Best General Feature from the International Regional Magazine Association, and in 2009 was awarded the Griffin Museum of Photography’s Susan Sontag Scribe Award for best photographic writing. Hart is co-author of the Pearson/Prentice-Hall college textbook Photography and author of the original Photography For Dummies, among several other books on photographic subjects. His new Kehrer Verlag monograph, As I Found It: My Mother's House, addresses the issues of memory and dementia through an artistic lens, and is now available on Amazon.