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Asch was born in Southampton, New York and attended The Putney School before joining Columbia University where he received his B.S. in anthropology in 1959. While at Columbia, he served as a teaching assistant for Margaret Mead who encouraged his work in visual anthropology. From 1950-1951, he served apprenticeships with Minor White , Edward Weston and Ansel Adams through the San Francisco Art Institute (formerly known as the California School of Fine Arts). He received his M.A. in '' African Studies'' from Boston University (with an anthropology concentration at Harvard University ) in 1964.

He taught at New York University , Brandeis University , and Harvard University , prior to joining the University Of Southern California in 1982. He was the Director of the '' Center For Visual Anthropology '' from 1983 until his passing in 1994.


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