1 min 1 image: Michael Valdes

Monday, April 11, 2016

Michael Valdes

James Stanfield, “Anxious Eyes”

1987, Medium Unknown

I selected this image because so many questions come to mind when as soon as I saw it. You can only imagine about what was going on during that surgery and how picture how intense that situation is. You really get a sense of realization about how hard it is to save someones life as a doctor, and you can tell by looking at the photo how long the doctor and nurse have been attending to this man on the operating table with no rest. The nurse in the corner who is taking a nap further displays how exhausting it is to be in that situation. The lighting and palette used was very pleasing to me, and helped make this image stronger and more powerful.

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