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.

DANA ROSS


DANA ROSS
Lee Friedlander, Lafayette, Louisiana, 1968

Lee Friedlander changed the world of photography.
Up until he published his series of photos - Self Portrait - photographs had been pictures of a subject.

His photos are about the photographer's viewpoint.

Like a rainbow, the object in the photo only exists as the point of view of the viewer. To make that point more clear he includes his shadow or reflection in every shot.

The idea that you can find order in chaos because of your personal viewpoint is a philosophic concept that bubbled into U.S. culture during the pre-hippie Beatnik era of the 50s.
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