1 min 1 image: Bryan Vazquez

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Bryan Vazquez

Mitch Epstein, "American Power"

2004

The photo I chose is by American photographer Mitch Epstein, from his collection entitled "American Power." The photo was taken at Amos Coal Power Plant in Raymond, Virginia in 2004. I was first struck by the name of the collection, "American Power". The image of the the houses and the trees gave me the feeling of an American home setting, and then, there in the background, a massive power plant, dwarfing the homes.

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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