1 min 1 image: Arihana Robles

Monday, April 14, 2014

Arihana Robles

Lee Friedlander "New York City"

2011 gelatin sliver print

I choose this image because it reminds of when I go widow shopping at a new place. My mind is filled with the many different things that are around me and I am not sure what to focus on. I am curious to see what is inside the store but I am always looking at the surrounding buildings and people. This image by Friedlander captures this feeling in one moment, by having different layers of what you might see when walk by a place like this. I think because its in black and white you can view this image as a whole because if it was in color you might be distracted by the different colors in the picture.

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