1 min 1 image: Molly Seldon

Monday, April 17, 2017

Molly Seldon

I selected this image because it feels mysterious and unsettling. The angle of the woman suggests the viewer is standing above and looking down at her. The woman's submerged expression is hauntingly beautiful and at peace as the last of her breath bubbles to the surface. The colors are overall very monochromatic and allow the woman's face and red lips to become the focus. Part of the mystery is we do not know where the woman is; she could be enjoying a bath in her home or dying at the bottom of a lake.

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