1 min 1 image: Micah Lease

Sunday, April 13, 2014

Micah Lease

Roy Decarava "Coltrane and Elvin"

1960

I chose this picture mainly because it featured a passion of mine, jazz music. I think the beauty in this photo is the playful combination of both passionate jazz music and classy black and white photography. These two art forms are subjective to each person, but also resonate on a deeper level to each person as well. The use of shallow depth of field also makes the contrast sharper to me, and this draws me closer.

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