A Brief History of the "1 Image 1 Minute" Project

This project is a contemporary recreation of Une Image Pour Une Minute, a project originally produced by French director Agnes Varda for presentation on French television in 1983. In Varda's version, a photographic image appeared on television (in-between network programming), and someone--a curator, photographer, or art historian--would speak about the image for one minute.


Here I have asked contemporary photographers, artists, historians, and others to select an image that has significance for them, and write or speak about it for the equivalent of 1 minute. The result is a a compelling and accessible means of gaining insight into other artists’ and photographers’ perspectives. The project is also a way of reactivating photo history, cultural literacy, and of offering a closer look at images than the mere fraction of a second that most contemporary images are afforded.

Judie Bamber


Judie Bamber
Artist

Gillian Laub, Kinneret, Tel Aviv, January 2004. chromogenic print, 30 x 40 in. courtesy Bonni Benrubi Gallery. © Gillian Laub.


I chose this image because it disturbs me. I am unnerved by it. It’s unusual for an image to have this effect on me. My relationship to images is much more analytical. My mind can’t process what I’m seeing in this picture so I move to feeling. I don’t want to understand my reaction. It’s uncomfortable to think about what I’m seeing in this instance. It’s the uncanny quality of this image. I understand this is a human being but she appears to be something else as well. The covering that protects her body makes her appear as something else to me. She is doll-like. At the same time her expression seems to say so much. She has accepted this horror. She’s still here. The person is visible in that devastated body and she is willing to let herself be seen. I find her incredibly sexy.


X-Tra Volume 12, No 3, Spring 2010






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