1 min 1 image: Jorge Garcia

Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Jorge Garcia

Ori Gersht "Blow up, Untitled 18"

2016

The reason I pick this photograph is not only because of its meaning but also its scientific aspect. The photograph 'Blow Up' was taken by photographer Ori Gersht. It shows a bouquet of flowers being, well, blown up. The reason you can see a shattering effect is because Gersht froze the flowers with liquid nitrogen, he called it an "uneasy beauty in destruction". Flowers represent peace, in the picture you can see the flowers in brutal terror, it shows the tension that exist between violence and beauty.

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