1 min 1 image: Devin De Leon

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Devin De Leon

Devin De Leon
Helmut Newton "Hand in Shoe"
1991 Gelatin silver print

With the flick of a wrist or the press of a button one who is skilled enough can make an image appear as something that its really not. At first glance this image appears to be a woman's leg placed on a table, but it is only her hand in her shoe. Photographer Helmut Newton was famous in the fashion industry for his beautiful images. He mostly worked in black and white. I genuinely enjoyed this image because it made me question everyday perception.

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