1 min 1 image: Kimberly Minifield

Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Kimberly Minifield

Albert Eisensteadt, "Marilyn Monroe at Home

1953

I chose this image of Marilyn Monroe shot by Albert E 1953 because she is like the Beyoncé of her time and her beauty is undeniable but this image was taken at home and she looks like an ordinary women, without the extensive hours of hair and makeup and she still looks amazing. This is such a simple image but simplicity is what made this image stand out to me. In this image I felt that she wasn't trying so hard like in all the other typical Marilyn Monroe images you see on the Internet. She looks poised and at peace with herself and her surroundings. Her eyes being closed and the part in her lips made me feel like she won the war with herself and she has accepted her flaws and it would be nice if more women were winning the war with themselves and realizing that perfection is only a dream

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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).

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