Art Institute - Jason Lazarus, "Recordings"

The 'Recordings' series features found snapshots with writing on the back. Thse images are collected, archived, and curated into dimensions-variable installations.

Jason Lazarus, born 1975, is a part-time photography teacher at Columbia College and at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago. He has various works in photography, one of which can be seen at the Art Institute in Chicago in the Modern Wing. Recordings(“Big Storm” January 30, 1967, Mom) is an installation of 235 photos with writings on the back of the pictures. This piece interested me because it reminded me of my mother. She has over thousands upon thousands of images in albums that are in our house that have writings on the back of it. As with this installation of Jason Lazarus’ Recordings, the writings on the back of the pictures are, to me, a form of documenting history. Little sayings on the back of the pictures giving a date of when the image was taken or when it was given to its recipient. Each one leaving behind a memory that will forever be frozen in time in the picture as well as the writing on the back on those pictures.

For more information on Jason Lazarus and his work, please visit this website: http://www.jasonlazarus.com/ or http://jasonlazarus.blogspot.com/