Russell Hart’s photographic work has been exhibited at a variety of galleries and museums, a number of which hold his prints in their collections. These include the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Newport Art Museum; the Currier Gallery of Art; The Hudson River Museum; Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art; Boston’s Robert Klein Gallery; the Addison Gallery of American Art; Harvard University’s Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts; the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University; Missouri’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art; Connecticut’s New Britain Museum of American Art; and the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, MA, as well as various private collections.
Hart teaches in the master’s in digital photography program at New York’s School of Visual Arts, and previously taught photography at Tufts University and the Boston Museum School. For 25 years he was Executive Editor at American Photo magazine, and his writing on photographic subjects has also appeared in The New York Times, Men’s Journal, and Us magazines. He has received the American Society of Magazine Editors’ Award for General Excellence (American Photo team), the Griffin Museum of Photography’s Scribe Award for best photographic writing, and the Gold Medal for Best General Feature from the International Regional Magazine Association. Hart co-authored the Pearson/Prentice-Hall college textbook Photography, among a half dozen other books, and has contributed introductions, forewords, and chapters to many other photographic publications.
