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.
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