1 min 1 image: Joel Melchor

Monday, April 17, 2017

Joel Melchor

John Chiara, "County Line at Annis Brake"

2014, Camera Obscura Ilfochrome Photograph, Unique

John Chiara is an experimental photographer from San Francisco, CA. He makes unique works by directly manipulating photosensitive paper. I liked this image, because of the reflective paper, the way the paper is cut and the lack of people in them. I thought it was amazing that he prints and takes the image at the same time by using a large field camera. This camera is big enough for Chiara to enter. Inside he attaches the paper to the camera's back wall and uses his hands and body to burn and dodge the image instinctively. This image has soft hues and a lonely scenery. This image is strongly perceptual, evoking a sentimental response.

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).

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