1 min 1 image: Katherine Fajardo

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

Katherine Fajardo

Katherine Fajardo 

Oscar Castillo, "Happy Couple in Lil Valley"

1972, Color photograph 

I selected this because the makeup caught my eye, but as I looked at the photo I was continuously drawn to it for the old school romance. To the left of the image, there are hearts tagged on a wall together, and the female is grasping onto the male as to signify a connection and with the added hearts one can assume romance. It's romanticized further ass she is holding onto this man but appears that she could handle her own if need be. The males smile reminds me of the smile my father would have on his face when my mother would throw shade. Knowing what I know now of Oscar Castillo's amazing photography being based in East Los Angeles, I can imagine this is what my parents must have looked like when they met in Lincoln Heights at the young age of 17 and 15.

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