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About

Throughout the past three decades Hildy Pincus Kronen has created a photographic style resembling movie stills from an Alfred Hitchcock thriller. Like him her images can be unsettling. Her spare enigmatic photographs are usually expressed compositionally by placing a lone figure in the frame with an emphasis on the play of light and dark. 

 

Her portraits she says “...would not be described as ‘portraits’ in your traditional sense. Many times the frame cuts off the identify of the person creating the sense that the individual could be anyone. Working with both film and digitally, Kronen is best known for her hand coloring.  Through her special sensibility and spare use of color on black and white photographs she has come up with her own unique seductive reality.

 

Kronen maintains an openness when beginning a photo-shoot bringing a depth of meaning to her photographs based on her connection to her subject.  With her keen eye for composition she meticulously places and develops a rapport between herself and the model allowing for their vulnerability to surface thus creating a level of intimacy between the viewer and her subject.

 

Kronen currently lives in the Berkshires and is represented by Sohn Fine Art, Lenox, MA.  She got an MA in Anthropology from Hunter College, NYC. She got her first camera at 25 changing the direction of her future. As a young photographer in Brooklyn Heights, she began her studies in photography at the School of Visual Arts, N.Y.C. and continued at the International Center for Photography, N.Y.C. In NYC in the 70’s and 80’s she was highly influenced by photographers Duane Michaels, Sean Kernan, David Chalk, Charles Gatewood, and Bruce Gilden helping to form her vision.  Her work has been published in “Photographers Forum Magazine,” “Today’s Photographer Magazine,” “Time & Life Photography Annual” and “Woman Self Portraits” (edited by Joyce Tennyson Cohen).