1 min 1 image: Monique Munoz

Monday, September 15, 2014

Monique Munoz

Danny Wilcox Frazier, "Lydia and Tatum Cree"

2004

This image by Danny Wilcox Frazier is inspiring and beautiful. I liked the way he used contrast and the bright light to emphasis the baby's face, the image brings a sense of joy and intimacy, because the woman is bringing a precious new life to earth. The legs of the woman, surrounding the child, symbolize her strength. Her legs also lead our eyes to her newborn.

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