1 min 1 image: May 2016

Friday, May 27, 2016

Daniel Suarez

Ed Templeton "Teenage Smokers"

1994

Edward "Ed" Templeton is a professional skateboarder, company owner, photographer, and contemporary artist. The image I selected was from Templeton's book titled teenage smokers. I selected this image created by Ed Templeton because it reminds me of where I come from. When I look at this picture I instantly think of my neighborhood and all of the young kids I know. This photograph is a reflection of what goes on in my community. This image also represents the bad things that the youth does behind their parents back. Lastly, this image can disappoint a lot of people, but if no one photographed this then no one would see what young kids think is cool.

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