1 min 1 image: Rebecca Ballesteros

Monday, April 11, 2016

Rebecca Ballesteros

Dulce Pinzón, "Wonderwoman"

2006

Growing up, my mom would always yell at me for being so involved with my comic books. "Por que chingado te gusta tanto Wonder Woman?" "Why do you love Wonder Woman so much?" I would idolize these characters and get so distracted that I would never do my chores. Sure my mom would be pissed off, but I knew she couldn't stay mad forever. To this day she still calls me and yells at me to clean my room. But that doesn't bother me at all. As a Mexican woman who immigrated here, she did everything in her power to give my family a beautiful life. And as I got older, I think about all the moments she's rescued me, from car issues to bad breakups and never hesitated to save me. "Why do you love Wonder Woman so much?" Because, she's my mom.

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