Background
Hal Fischer was born in 1950 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
Hal Fischer was born in 1950 in Kansas City, Missouri, United States.
Fischer studied at the London School of Film. He also attended the University of Illinois in Urbana, where he earned a BFA (1973), and San Francisco State University, where he completed an MA in 1976.
He has been teaching at California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland since 1978 and at the City College of San Francisco since 1979. In 1977 he started working for Artweek (Oakland) as a contributing editor and in 1978 for Artforum (New York City) as a reviewer.
As a critic Fischer deals with contemporary photography.