1 min 1 image: Dylan Round

Monday, September 8, 2014

Dylan Round

Dylan Round

Lee Friedlander

Stems, 1999

gelatin-silver print,

Lee Friedlander, No longer on big adventures and living life through travel, went through a dramatic change when he no longer was on the move due to pains and aches from his knees. It took him along time to find an inspiration, when finally he found it in the most random place. His wife would but freshly cut flowers on the table. Just like that Friedlander found inspiration. I think this photograph has a lot of meaning behind not only is it beautiful due to its contrast and strong texture feel, but because you may not always have the most exciting things going on in your life but you must always find a way to look at the bright side and find your inspiration from the situation. From something as simple as the stems of flowers, friedlander was able to create an entire collection of beautiful photographs. Maybe things may not be The way they used to be but somehow you can find a way to make it beautiful.

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