1 min 1 image: Kayla Evans

Friday, September 12, 2014

Kayla Evans

Weegee (Arthur Fellig) "Tenement Penthouse"

1941 Gelatin Silver Print

I find this photo intriguing simply because it reminds me of what my family dealt with for years. The single bedroom with only one bed for everyone to sleep on is an all too familiar scene. This photo offers viewers a moment to live in what was a relatively terrifying time in US History. During the early 1940's the United States declared its position in WW2, and as history will tell us, war does severe damage to the economic state of a country. Poorer families were forced to move and live in greater poverty, and the image reveals just how unfortunate some households became.

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