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.

Rose-Lynn Fisher


Rose-Lynn Fisher
Mario Giacomelli, La Gente del Sud (People of the South)1962

I love this image for the sense of presence that persists beyond
memory, place and time. The figure of the boy haunts me, like an
apparition or memory in a dimensionless space whose presence there
seems almost random, as though he’s just passing through. His rhythm
seems syncopated in relation to all the women; his face is young and
old; instead of casting a shadow there’s an aura of light around him:
his very being seems less of matter than of spirit; and yet he’s the
only element in focus. Which pops him into now, here. I don’t even
sense him looking at the camera, but at us. Then I’m flipped inside
out, of focus and light, blur and shadow - perhaps he’s the one who
remembers and all the context is the dream. This photograph dissolves
his reality into mine, and leave both open to scrutiny.
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