1 min 1 image: Cathy Hernandez

Monday, September 8, 2014

Cathy Hernandez

Cindy Sherman, "Untitled Film Still"
1977

A housewife around the 1960's. In her kitchen possibly washing the dishes, I can relate to that. But the way her eyes seem to gaze out on something or someone, she almost seems likes she's spacing out for a bit. That just captures my attention in a heart beat. Spacing out is common and i do it often, i can put some feelings into this image. Your mind is freely roaming and just not having to worry for a minute until it snaps out of it.

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