1 min 1 image: Noelle Quito

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Noelle Quito

Lewis Wickes Hine, "Boy with Bicycle"

1913

This photograph was taken by Lewis Hine in Waco, Texas in 1913. Hine was known for being a photographer for the National Child Labor Committee. This was a time when child labor was popular and practiced. His work was dangerous as he was threatened by the industries because he was exposing their little secret - child labor. This photo intrigues and touches me because this photo represents freedom. The bicycle represents a mode of transportation to go any where the child wanted. The cigarette represented adulthood and maturity. Although I am not a smoker, I am a cyclist. Cycling gives me the freedom to go to places I want to go to. It also allows me to make my own decision on how to react to cars, pedestrians, and stop lights; and to me, making your own choices show adulthood.

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