1 min 1 image: Dylan Beatty

Thursday, September 11, 2014

Dylan Beatty

Dylan Beatty
Chris Killip

Helen and Hula-Hoop, Seacoal Beach, Lynemouth, Tyneside, UK,

1984, Gelatin silver print

I was captivated by this photograph as soon as I saw it. It shows a moment in a young girl's life that at first may look sad and depressing, yet it does not have to be. Taken in Seacoal Beach, the scene appears that of a post-apocalyptic wasteland. The subject, a young girl, does not appear to notice her bleak surroundings as she plays with her hula hoop. The image speaks of childhood innocence and joy in the face of adversity that I aspire to never lose as I grow older.

The photograph is from the book In Flagrante, containing some of the most influential images from 1980s Britain. This image won Killip the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award.

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