1 min 1 image: Raphael Lagsit

Monday, April 17, 2017

Raphael Lagsit

Eiichi Matsumoto, "Reverse Shadows"

1945, Black and White

At first, without the proper context, we look at this and think, "Ohh thats a great art. Its very minimalistic" But it is anything but great. This photo was taken after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on Japan in 1945. Its a shadow that has been left by a ladder and a human body that evaporated during the bombing. Both the human body and the ladder acted as a shield or sunscreen for the wall behind, which then created these shadows. Its a horrifying look at the effects of an unjustified act in human history minus the gruesome bodies or destroyed lives.

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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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