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.

Skip Arnold



Skip Arnold, Artist
The Incredible Case of the Stack o' Wheat Murders photographs came 10 prints in a box set, including Hershey's syrup and enough flour for the stack. It was like Barbie meets Easy Bake Oven!


The first time I saw the series I thought, "That is tough!"


The particular image here is just a knockout! It's kind of odd that it's the solar system, but you're looking down at it. The scene is hot! Sexy, hot, cool, a little perverted, wow, bad dream, good dream, wet dream. Shock, twisted, apolitical, fashion, nightmare, twilight, the fact that it makes some people mad. It's hot, and it's cool. I would do her. She's hot! You may not want your mother to see it but she would find it under your mattress and still just leave it. There is of course the style and aesthetic like painting or film. The Document. It's like a scene from Antonioni's Blow-Up. It's just too cool.


Tough.


I really wasn't that interested in whether it was fictitious or real. (I did daydream from time to time of what it would have been like...) As years have gone by, its charge and its histories still have no real interest to me.
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