1 min 1 image: Celeste Diaz

Monday, November 30, 2015

Celeste Diaz

John Gaunt, "Tragedy by the Sea"

1954, 120 Black and White Film

I first came across this photograph in a museum on a senior trip to Washington DC and have always carried it with me. The photograph made such an impact in my life, from driving my desire to create art to realizing how important each moment of life is. This black and white image captured this moment of tragedy for the couple. What had started off as a nice warm day turned into a grey, heart-breaking day. Their 19 month-old-child had been swept away by the waves and drowned. This imaged holds such deep emotion, and just with a still moment, we as the audience share their pain.

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