1 min 1 image: Daisy Tellez

Wednesday, December 5, 2018

Daisy Tellez

Daisy Tellez
Annie Liebovitz (American, born 1949),
"Jeff Koons and La Cicciolina" 1991, c-print

Annie Liebovitz is a celebrated American photographer best known for her engaging celebrity portraits. She began working as a commercial photographer at Rolling Stones magazine in the 1960s, and still regularly contributes to Vanity Fair and Vogue. I chose this artist because I became intrigued by the emotion each image contained. In her work, she captures her subject's personality, inner life, and intimate moments. Her images reveal the playful and expressive aspects of her models, for instance, the "Jeff Koons and La Cicciolina" that was photographed in 1991 for a wedding picture. This image was taken to use as a front image of their invitation.

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