i heart photograph in chicago 4/8

just a reminder that i'll be giving a lecture about i heart photograph at the art institute tomorrow (wednesday) evening. i'll be talking about contemporary photography, the internet, and everything inbetween. it's free and open to the public. see you there...

laurel ptak
wednesday, april 8 at 6pm
columbus auditorium at SAIC
280 s columbus drive
chicago

full details here (just scroll down a bit).

i heart photograph in chicago 4/8

hello chicago. mark your calendars. next wednesday i'll be giving a talk about i heart photograph at the art institute. really hope to see you there!

laurel ptak
free public lecture at SAIC
wednesday, april 8 at 6pm
columbus auditorium
280 s columbus drive (between monroe and jackson)
chicago

full details are here (just scroll down a bit).

talk at mica / ffffounders in nyc / interns needed

hello baltimore. i heart photograph will be giving a talk tomorrow about photography, the internet, and everything inbetween. really hope to see you there:

public lecture at MICA
monday, february 9 at 4:00 pm
main building - room 110
1300 mount royal avenue
baltimore

do you contribute to the website ffffound and live in or near nyc? i heart photograph would like to invite you to participate in an upcoming project. drop us a line at iheartphotograph@gmail.com for more details.

i heart photograph is seeking a few amazing interns with experience in photography, design, or programming to work with us on upcoming web and exhibition projects here in nyc. to be considered please send a note and resume along to iheartphotograph@gmail.com.

los angeles

am in los angeles this week to review portfolios at review l.a., organized by center whose upcoming call for entries is definitely worth taking a peek at, deadline is january 23. i'll be taking a few days off from blogging, updates as usual will resume next week.

[above: ed ruscha. black hollywood. 1984.]

happy birthday i heart photograph

i heart photograph turns two years old today!

as a birthday present, email us your latest work or send us some feedback about the site: iheartphotograph@gmail.com.

you can also celebrate by heading over to why+wherefore where we've just guest curated an online exhibition titled '(naturally occurring) emoticons'. it's part of their '7 by 7' project where a different website, curator, or artist contributes something each week. see for yourself right here.

and thanks to everyone out there who's been looking, reading, clicking, and rss'ing over the last two years...

i heart photograph upcoming events...

thursday may 22 at the pierro gallery

the google aesthetic: a panel discussion on art, technology, and the internet

join the pierro galley for an intimate conversation on art, technology, and the internet. laurel ptak (independent curator and founder of iheartphotograph.com), wes miller (associate curator, art:21), and leigh claire la berge, ph.d. (american studies scholar and 2008 university of chicago society of fellows) will discuss "the google aesthetic" and the impact of online culture and technology on contemporary art.

the talk will be followed by a closing reception for the exhibition "is it possible to make a photograph of new jersey regardless of where you are in the world?"

thursday may 22
7:30-9:30pm
at the pierro gallery in south orange new jersey
pierrogallery.org

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

on holiday...

i heart photograph will be on holiday for the next few days, but in the meantime, take a peek at some older posts that are among our favorites from the last year...

jail finds
i heart photograph the soundtrack
thomas hirschhorn
kota ezawa
stephen gill
new york magazine
john divola
the ego has landed
the atlas group
camera toss
dogs in human costumes / humans in dog costumes
dan graham
jason fulford

and some other stuff out there in the world we have been enjoying a lot lately...

words without pictures
capricious magazine
dashwood books
clip/stamp/fold
j+l books
new musuem
jpeg mess
vvork
nieves
nature morte
museum of contemporary art detroit
kessels kramer publishing
ffffound!

happy holidays!

xo,
laurel

[upside down christmas tree collage by steven shearer. xmastrees. 2005.]

happy birthday i heart photograph

i heart photograph turned one year old yesterday! to celebrate, in the coming months we'll be introducing lots of new columns and features, and eventually a brand-new design. if you've got ideas for things you'd like to see on the site we'd love to hear it, send your thoughts along to: iheartphotograph [at] gmail [dot] com.

as a birthday present to i heart phototgraph, take a moment today to email our url to at least one person you know who might enjoy the site.

and a huge thanks to everyone out there who's been looking, reading, rss'ing, and commenting over the last year. it's been a blast.

xo,
laurel

i love you mom!

i'm in massachusetts visiting my family for a couple of days so i thought i'd leave you guys with this digital drawing my mom made...she's just learning to use the computer. funny to watch your mom make things that look like drawings you did when you were a little kid. who knows, maybe someday i'll get her blogging! back in nyc tomorrow and i promise more posts then...

odds + ends

i heart photograph will be making some small technical improvements to the site in the next few days. one such exciting upgrade: all links will soon be opening in a new window instead of taking you away from the blog. also some tag word improvements. please bear with us while we're transitioning.

i also wanted to say a huge and overdue thanks to everyone who came to the opening, has made the trip up to see the exhibition at higher pictures, or sent their congrats. it's so very appreciated!

and finally, i've said this before but i'll say it again...i heart photograph loves to hear your feedback. please keep your comments and emails coming!

xo,
laurel

nyc!

well i'm finally home again after a wonderful-wonderful-wonderful vacation. huge thanks are owed to eric and asha for their top notch posts while i was off globetrotting. also a big thanks to everyone i met, stayed with, and generally had fun in the company of these last few weeks. trip highlights that you'll hear and see more about soon include visiting documenta, photographing iceland, and journeying off into the swedish archipelago. okay, now, back to posting as usual...

xo,
laurel

stockholm!

just a quick hello from me. still traveling...in stockholm at the moment...and having an amazingly lovely time. this might just be one of the best vacations ever in the whole history of vacationing.

wanted to say a huge thanks to eric for all the great posts over the last week and to introduce you to a new guest blogger who will be taking over where he left off. asha is perhaps best described as a man of mystery and intrigue. he recently left his post as a photo researcher at the new yorker to spend more time on his own work. he begins ucla's esteemed mfa program photography this fall. give him a big welcome.

xo,

laurel

berlin!

just arrived last night in berlin. my favorite city in the world! i will be posting only sporadically while i'm traveling (kassel, stockholm, reykjavík) through the end of the month. but no worries for those of you who require your daily dose of i heart photograph, i've invited eric (the face behind the front desk of the gladstone gallery in nyc) to do some guest blogging for the next week.

if anyone in berlin, stockholm or reykjavík would like to meet up or has tips about where to see interesting photo stuff while i'm here please do drop me a note: iheartphotograph@gmail.com

xo,
laurel

bye bye until monday

i'm headed upstate for a gleeful weekend away from the city (and imagine it might feel something like this picture). it's my birthday on wednesday so i'm doing a little early celebrating! no more posts until monday...

[jasper de beijer. from the project buitenpost. 2004.]

cooper union classes

i'm teaching two photo classes here in nyc this summer at cooper union that i'm pretty excited about: developing a personal vision and creating a visual diary. thought some of you out there might be interested too so full course descriptions are above. info on class registration is here. my bio is here. and you can see even more classes offered at cooper union this summer right here.

say hello to 5 things

i am most excited to unveil a new weekly feature on the blog today called 5 things. 5 things invites some of my favorite photographers whose work has appeared on i heart photograph to share a list of 5 of the things they like best in the world. i fancy 5 things to be like a little x-ray showing us the interesting ways their minds work and what sorts of things might directly or indirectly influence the work they make.

i can also promise a few other great new features in store in the coming weeks. hooray!

your feedback, ideas, and photographs are always most welcome at: iheartphotograph@gmail.com

xo,
laurel

urgggh

i heart photograph is having some strange viewing issues in some versions of firefox. i hope to have this resolved soon, please bear with me if you're seeing some strange gray rectangles...

in the meantime you can use safari or internet explorer and everything will look perfect, i promise.


UPDATE: as of 4.3.07 this is fixed. if you are still seeing anything strange please let me know.

xo,
laurel
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iheartphotograph@gmail.com

hi there and welcome to i heart photograph, a place for the photographic odds and ends that i encounter and want to share. if there's anything out there in the world you think i should know about or post here please drop me a line at iheartphotograph [at] gmail [dot] com.

xo,
laurel