1 min 1 image: Guillermo Lacio Jr

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

Guillermo Lacio Jr

Gilles Peress, "Morning of Bobby Sands' Death, Ballymurphy Bellfast"

1981 (taken) 1996 (printed) gelatin silver print

I chose this photo because I liked how the tilted street makes it look like the kids are trying to run uphill while the world is tipping over. I love the use of one directional motion and the use of repeated visual elements in the design of the children's shoes and in the way their legs are positioned during their run. Its also of note to recognize the photos of people in the windows of the house on the right, making it seem like these adults are watching them. It's the perfect photo that combines photojournalism and the use of the critical moment.

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