1 min 1 image: Karen Gentry

Wednesday, November 30, 2016

Karen Gentry

Janae-Shields, Newborn

November 21, 2016

As I looked at this image/photo from Janae-Shields was amazing showing the innocence of a Newborn baby. How soft and pure laying in the arms of an adult, so little and so delicate. Shields has such a passion for photography as I review more of her photos she captures such life in a still photo. I selected this image because it speaks to me about how young and innocence my children are and where, the moment between the arms of a loving adult holding the newborn a brand-new life. It is about what is not seen, the intimacy personal relationships between and mother or father and their newborn child-- anew moment in life.

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