Today you will be writing about this photograph made by artist Gregory Crewdson.
Read this short biography for Crewdson before you write: Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer best known for staging cinematic scenes of suburbia to dramatic effect. His surreal images are often melancholic or disturbing, offering ambiguous narrative suggestions and blurring the boundaries between fiction and reality, thanks to the artist’s painstaking preparation of elaborate sets, lighting, and cast. “My pictures are about a search for a moment—a perfect moment,” Crewdson has explained. Born on September 26, 1962 in Brooklyn, NY, the artist works with large production teams to scout and shoot his images. His work has been exhibited widely, notably including solo exhibitions at Gagosian Gallery in New York, the San Diego Museum of Art, and White Cube in London, among many others. A 1988 graduate of the Yale School of Art, he has served on its faculty since 1993 and is currently the director of its graduate studies in photography. The artist lives and works in New York, NY. Your analysis must be 5 paragraphs, 5 sentences minimum per paragraph. Remember to post your analysis as a comment to the blog post that corresponds to your class. If you post your analysis to the wrong class's post, it will not be graded. If you do not complete your analysis in class, you must finish and post it by midnight today! Refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--
Kurt Bliss
1/23/2020 09:29:54 am
The picture is of a man kneeling on the ground in his garage on what appears to be folded earth. There is a car with its headlights on and it is raining outside. The car is parked diagonally and some of it is outside and some inside. The man appears to have seen what was going on in the garage and quickly got out of his car to check what was up until he found the horrifying truth. The image is using dark colors to portray the seriousness and darkness of the situation.
Zac
1/23/2020 09:32:39 am
In the photo there is a sad looking man. Near him are bunches of grass. There are farming tools around him. There is a car behind him. He’s in a garage and it is raining outside.
MJ Ervin
1/23/2020 09:37:18 am
This image is of a man or kid in the garage with the car parked outside. Its using dark colors and like one light source. The lighting is dark and not a lot of bright colors. The things in this image are a boy, it seems to be a dog but its hard to see. It seems the guy is hanging with his dog in the garage on a rainy night.
diego Saucedo/ Critical analysis In this picture we can see a man stading on what looks to be a garage, the man seems to be surrounded by gardening tools and some big balls of lawn, the man also is wearing a shit and pants that are dirty from the mud a
1/23/2020 09:37:26 am
Critical analysis
anaya zachery
1/23/2020 09:38:04 am
This image depicts a man kneeling in his garage with a sort of sad, far off look on his face. It is dark and rainy outside; this is probably in the middle of the night. In front of the man is what looks to be some sort of grass or garden. The man has gardening tools and has dirt on his clothes, as if he has been working for a while. Behind him is a truck with its headlights on, and there is more of the grass stuff in the bed of the truck.
Elise Miles
1/23/2020 09:41:38 am
The image is of a middle aged man looking at this big blob of greenery in what it looks like to be his garage. The garage is opened to his car and it is raining outside. The colors in the image are blue, green, and black. The lighting is dark even though you can still see almost everything in the image clearly. The objects in the image are the man, his car, the matches next to him, and the bunches of greenery. In the image the man is looking at his greenery blob and looks depressed.
Garrett Greiner
1/23/2020 09:43:47 am
This is an image of a man sitting in his garage surrounded by what appears to be rolls of fake grass/turf. The garage door is open, and we can see that it is raining outside. Various gardening tools are scattered about and hanging on the walls of the garage. We see a car parked outside with its headlights on. Nobody appears to be in the car. The man is lit up by the headlights of the car. It looks like the man has already moved some of the rolls of turf outside next to his car, and he placed one on top as well. He seems very depressed, and seems miserable. He looks like he doesn’t want to be there doing what he is doing. There are two containers on the right side of the garage door. This image has darker lighting. They took it at night, so everything is dark, except for the man who is lit up by the headlights.
dana salinas
1/23/2020 09:44:03 am
In the image by Gregory Crewdson, there is a man kneeling in a garage or shed and has a very disappointed or sad look on his face. The man is wearing bright colors, which make him glow in the dim lights and makes him the main point of focus. The man is surrounded by what looks like trees or artificial grass. There are also gardening tools around him and intertwined with the artificial grass. The lighting and colors are very dull and the only things that really stand out are the man’s shirt and the car headlights.
Nathan Bond
1/23/2020 09:48:01 am
In this picture, there is a man sitting on his knees in a garage with a car behind him and rain outside the garage. There are bags of grass all around him and gardening tools scattered around the room. The man is white and has blond hair. He is wearing a light blue button-up shirt with the collar open, brown pants and a watch. His clothes are dirty, he has mud all over him, and a frown on his face.
Ryan Shields
1/23/2020 01:16:56 pm
This image is of a dirty person sitting on their knees in their garage surrounded by partly unrolled sod and gardening equipment at night while it’s pouring outside. There's also an older car (probably from the 80s) with sod stuck to the bumper, on top of the car, and piled around the back. It’s using lots of darker colors, really the only brighter colors are the sod and the lights on the car. The colors are probably darker to give a more ominous feel to the image. It has very dark lighting, the only light is coming from the car headlights and the porch lights outside the garage. There are lots of objects in this image, there's the sod, gardening equipment, the person, the car, the garage, and the stop sign and house in the background. In this image there's a distressed looking person covered in dirt and surrounded by partially unrolled sod.
Max
1/26/2020 08:40:21 am
This image is of a middle-aged man, maybe in his late forties working on a patch of something in what looks like a garage. After doing more research, you learn that the “actor” in this photo is a character in Jurassic Park played by William H. Macy. Although I am not sure what is laying beside him, it looks like tools for digging up or working on whatever he is working on. The car in the background suggests that it is in the late 1980s or 90s. The look on his face is that of confusion or despair, maybe thinking about something that happened, or maybe just wondering what he’s doing, we may never know. The lighting in this photo is clearly staged, but it’s a beautiful kind of stage. You can barely tell it is at all, given that it looks like it’s a dark, and rainy night outside the comfort of the garage he is situated in.
Tomas Espejo
1/27/2020 06:34:46 pm
Some of the colors that are used in the photo include of blue, black, green, yellow, orange, white, and light brown. Blue is being used for the foggy sky in the background. And yellow, and white are being used for the headlights from the car that is i the photo. Light brown is the color of the gentlemen’s pants. Green is being used for the grass in the image. Orange is also a color from the headlights.
George Welch
2/21/2020 09:36:22 am
This image uses a lot of darker, mysterious colors. There are a lot of shadows and not a lot of bright lights. Much of the light in this image is coming from the car headlights and a light coming from above the person. The person in the image is sitting in a plot of grass in his garage. He is also surrounded by yard tools. Comments are closed.
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