asha schechter

work by asha schechter. see more here and here.

[all asha schechter. from share chair cher. 2011.]

guest blogger • asha schechter

this week's guest blogger is artist asha schechter, whose archive column has been somewhat legendary on this site. you can see more of asha's own work right here and look forward to his posts all week long.

[above: asha schechter. newspaper. 2009.]

asha schechter

work by asha schechter. see more here.

[all asha schechter. untitled.]

asha schechter

some new work by asha schechter. see more here and here.

[all asha schechter. from installation views from the blackwelder show. 2009.]

guest blogging

hi, while laurel is vacationing in japan i (asha) am going to be filling in.

spring break publishing

spring break publishing opens wide its budget and pages to one artist each issue. always free, spring break is produced and disseminated in a city of the artist's choosing. see more here.

[all spring break publishing. top to bottom: image from spring break papers no. 2 by asha schechter (newspaper available for free at bookstores). 2008. try harder by jason lazarus (newsprint poster available for free in various book and record stores). 2009. image from spring break papers no. 2 by asha schechter (newspaper available for free at bookstores). 2008.]

asha schechter

recent work by asha schechter. see more here.

[all asha schechter. installation views from ucla thesis exhibition. 2009.]

asha schechter

website update and new work by asha schechter. see more here.

[all asha schechter. untitled.]

is it possible to make a photograph of new jersey regardless of where you are in the world?

the exhibition closes this sunday, so this week is your last ever chance to see it. thursday night will be a closing reception/panel discussion (the google aesthetic: art, technology, and the internet) which i can promise will be great. full info about the event here, general exhibition info here, and directions to the gallery right here. see you on thursday.

[all photos from the exhibition is it possible to make a photograph of new jersey regardless of where you are in the world? top to bottom: kelci mcintosh. asha schechter. jessica westbrook. daniel shea.]

is it possible to make a photograph of new jersey regardless of where you are in the world?

installation views from i heart photograph's latest exhibition at the pierro gallery on view through may 25th. take a peek at a nice blog post about the opening by one of the artists in the show, daniel shea. and get full info about the show including directions to the gallery and a list of events here.

[top to bottom: front room, featuring 500 5-x-7 inch prints by all 189 artists in the show. detail of front room. side room, featuring a wall of new jersey pizzas by asha schechter. exhibition catalogues designed by konst & teknik. back room, including work by (left to right) christophe maout, chris coy, barry w. hughes, sergei sviatchenko, daniel shea, eke kriek, pelle cass, antje peters. front room. details of photos atop viewing pedestal which the audience can touch, hold, and look through.]

introducing interview + archive

we are most excited to announce 2 brand new weekly columns that we are launching this week on i heart photograph: interview and archive.

interview is where we invite photographers to talk to us in detail about just one of their images. consider it a rare glimpse into the ideas, process, and mental notes behind the picture. we owe this all to guest blogger nicholas grider. nicholas is in his final semester of the mfa programs in photography and writing at calarts. he also writes for artslant. interview will launch today on i.h.p. and appear every tuesday.

archive is where we unearth one of the zillion weird and compelling photo archives that exist out there in cyberspace for your parusal and delight. the man behind archive is guest blogger asha schechter. asha is a grad student in the photo department at ucla. he maintains his own archive of sorts too, known as specific things. archive will launch tomorrow and appear on the blog each wednesday.

if you have a brilliant idea for a column you'd like to contribute, write and let us know: iheartphotograph@gmail.com

5 things • asha schechter

former new yorker photo researcher and i heart photograph guest blogger asha schechter just left nyc for los angeles this fall to pursue his mfa in photography at ucla. we here on the east coast miss him a lot so asked him to remind us of 5 of his favorite things. see asha's pictures here. a nice little website he created called specific things here. and his very own t-shirt company here.

1/ florian maier-aichen

i saw his show at lacma recently and was impressed by the way his pictures varied in form but were so consistent in tone. i especially liked his pictures of boats that had an epic, 19th century feeling. see some work from the show here.

2/ patrick jackson

patrick just finished his mfa at usc and does a lot of different things well. be sure to watch the excerpts of his videos. take a peek at more of his work here.

3/ the shy photographer

by jock carroll. i bought this book because of its great cover and title, but the story is better then you would expect. it's a terry southern-esque satire on tabloid journalism, but because it's from the 1960s it's not as annoying as that sounds. easy to find online but the one with the good cover is the british 1st edition. search for your own copy here.

4/ fallen fruit + treat street

these are both great ways of getting food unconventionally. fallen fruit, among other things, makes maps of all the places in los angeles where fruit trees extend into public space, which means you can go and eat it for free. treat street is a bakery that sets up shop sporadically for a day at a time in different locations, like a fancy lemonade stand. two of the nicer things about l.a. find out more about fallen fruit here and treat street here.

5/ interlochen music camp

i was looking at the amazing library of congress website and came across this collection of pictures from a "national music camp where 300 or more young musicians study symphonic music for eight weeks each summer." the photos were done by arthur siegel in michigan in 1942 for the u.s. office of war information. search the loc's database for yourself, type in "interlochen music camp" here.

young women holding koalas

are you awake at night wondering why there are so many damn photographs of young women cuddling koala bears in the world? if yes, then let me direct you to a little website known as specific things. while the question is never exactly answered, we do experience a gleeful range of bizarre and inexplicable photographic conventions. the site is made up of found images (and some texts too) that would never exactly catch your eye on their own...it is the accumulation of them that makes them so thrilling. from young women holding koalas to people dancing with glowsticks to dogpiles. huge thanks to the site's creator and all-around-great-guy asha for letting me post this here.

[all photos via specific things.]