1 min 1 image: Hayley Allen

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

Hayley Allen

Hayley Allen
Keegan Allen "That's life. I enjoy the rainy days."
2015, Digital

I chose this photo here made my Keegan Allen in his book "life. love. beauty" because the image captured my eye. I was flipping through his photo book in his New York section when I found this. The reflections from the lights bouncing off the ground, the blurry cars, and the main focus of the broken abandoned umbrella really caught my attention. I visually really enjoy how the subject of this photo is placed at the center bottom of the image, not directly in the middle. I like the harsher focus on the umbrella making the New York City background blurry. This picture makes me question its previous owner. I wonder at what point walking in the rain someone gave up and chose to get wet instead of trying to salvage their umbrella… makes me wonder.

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