1 min 1 image: Varand Ghazarian

Monday, April 14, 2014

Varand Ghazarian

"Todd Hido, Foreclosed Homes"

1996

I chose this image because of its ability to allow me to fill the empty spaces with figments of my own memories and experiences from my life at home. Todd Hido's series, "Foreclosed Homes" included a collection of images of rooms in houses where people lived their unique lives until they could not stay anymore. The empty rooms speak for themselves as a statement that declares the absence of the human touch they once felt. Its a vivid presentation of what it means to be alive and vulnerable without portraying a single human figure, done by simply showing the viewer the much-too personal space of a home unwillingly abandoned.

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).

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