Feedback • Gregory Crewdson Review

My review was not the strongest, I was having a bad week and it was the last thing on my mind so I could not produce an amazing piece as my mind was not creative enough. With numerous life changing situations, and lots of rejection, I just jotted down what I saw in the piece and provided no background information that I had collected the week before, and no quotes from reliable sources. We discussed this with my group in great detail and did not nominate my piece as the worst, as one of the members of my group did not write a review, therefore mine was still better. However, after looking at Warren and Jade's review, I understood what was needed to go into a review, and how I would go about writing one in the future.

Review • Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson explores staged photography to the very limits, producing cinematic images that take an average of 6 hours a time. Crewdson and his team of assistants perfect every part of the photograph until it looks like it has been taken from a film still out of a blockbuster movie. Critics have regarded his work as inspirational, whereas some people dislike his work for the amount of effort it takes for a shot that looks copied from a film.

The image shown above shows a woman in front of a parked vehicle with the lights on. Are the lights on for a reason, or are they drawing us into the photograph? I cannot help but admire Crewdson's work, the photographs look like paintings, all elegantly planned to the last strand of hair on the models head. The gaze in the distance indicates something is going on, which tells me that is why she has stopped the car. Most of Crewdson's images have a sci-fi feel to them, and this is no exception.

His work features disturbing and surreal events, which makes the viewer look deeper into the photograph to find the solution to the problem. I personally find Crewdson’s images disturbing yet intriguing, and give us a glimpse into a place that I cannot see as being planet Earth.