1 min 1 image: Ellen Serpa

Monday, April 14, 2014

Ellen Serpa

Jack Wassell, "My Lost Letters"

2012

Everybody has their own personal story to be told. Every photo is about the story that it tells. Every image receives different reactions and interpretations by different individuals. When concepts are being pushed further by the artist, the image can seem abstract. Wassell likes to leave his message of his image to be open ended for discussion, so the viewer can connect with the picture in their own personal way. He leaves only one quote to go with his self-portrait:

"Here are the words that never reached your ears."

ABOUT

This blog was inspired by the 1 Image 1 Minute written column in X-TRA and subsequent live iterations of the project by Micol Hebron. The inspiration for the 1 Image 1 Minute column was a similar project produced by Belgian director Agnès Varda (and later written about by Rosalind Krauss) for French television in 1983.

For this blog (and their assignment), students in Niku Kashef's photography classes are asked to select a photograph (that they did not make) that inspires or intrigues them in some way and to speak about it for exactly 1 minute (roughly 150 written words). Students post their name, the artists' name, title of the photograph, year the photograph was made and the medium along with their ~150 words.

In the second part of the assignment, students are asked to either use the image they chose to speak to OR a new image and make an inspiration image based on the photographic/2d design aspects of that image (eg direction/type of light, perspective, depth of field, focus, color palate, etc).

To add to this blog and contribute a post, please contact niku(at)csun(dot)edu