Gregory Crewdson- Blogpost 2- Aby

Gregory Crewdson was born in brooklyn on September 6th 1962. He graduated early at John Dewy High School. He was part of a punk rock group called 'The Speedies' when he was a teenager. Hewlett Packard used one of the groups songs in an advertisement to promote digital cameras. Crewdson studied photography in the 1980s at SUNY Purchase and he also received his fine 'Master of  fine arts' at Yele University. He is now a professor at the same university.




Gregory Crewdson's photos are very dramatic and cinematic. They are staged photos in which he hired models and places to set up a scene to take a picture. They often feature disturbing, surreal events. Crewdson is very different to most other photographers as he plans a photo and sets it up.

In this photograph, we see a women looking at her window which looks like a painting. It looks really surreal and confuses you about weather or not she is looking through the window or a painting. The background of the image is dark even with the lighting, resulting in a night like theme.


The photo shows us a middle age woman and a teenage boy in a dining table. They seem to be mother and son waiting for the father and the son seems worried, it has a very surreal effect. The outside looks very dark but as it gets into the middle, it is very colorful. The boy is more leaned into the dark part of the image while the middle age women is in the colorful stage.

This photo we see a daughter returning to her mother. we know this because it seems like the daughter has been away for awhile and the mother stopped and got out of her car because she is surprised. The way the daughter is addressed was in a surreal state.

Urls:

http://theamericanreader.com/interview-with-photographer-gregory-crewdson/
http://www.theurbanlist.com/brisbane/a-list-by-filter/2832
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/p/gregory-crewson/
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Gregory_Crewdson_2.jpg