© Gregory Crewdson 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 4PM today! Refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--
EmmaKate Spies
12/13/2018 08:50:37 am
This is an image of a lot of different things. In the image there are a couple of houses in the background. There also is a tree in the middle of the yard. In the foreground of the image there is a fire truck and it looks like it’s putting out a small fire. The colors that are being used in this image by Gregory Crewdson are white for the houses in the background, and white for the water that is coming out of the fire hose. Red for the fire truck nad green for the trees. The lighting is natural light and darker light. The objects that are in the image are a person putting out a fire, a house, trees and a swing-set playground. What is happening in the image is that a man is putting out a fire and there are alot of different things that could’ve caught on fire.
Samantha Meldner
12/13/2018 08:54:03 am
In this image, created by Gregory Crewdson, contains a lot of difference what you could look as scenes. There are multiple different things happening all at once, which makes the image very intricate and complex for viewers to find a meaning behind. To start, in the foreground of the image, there is a pile of mud and or dirt that seems moist and it looks like it probably just rained. There is a large truck with a hose attached to it that is being led by a man to a tank that has some sort of steam of smoke coming off of it.
mariah podwika
12/13/2018 08:56:54 am
The image is of a house near a forest and the other half is of what looks like a construction zone. The colors in the image are relatively bright and pronounced, the colors that are being used are mainly reds and greens. The lighting is very outdoorsy and somewhat sunny but not overly so. It might have been a bit of an overcast that day to give the image a bit of a darker vibe than what it would have had if the sun was fully out. There are people walking around in all parts of the image and it looks like they are in the act of setting up a scene for a movie or TV show. The house in the back looks very old and rustic, almost in an ominous way. There is also an abundance of the same type of car, in the same color, in the background of the image that adds to the movie like feel of the image. 12/13/2018 08:57:00 am
In the photo there is a construction site next to a house and many old parked cars. There is a giant tree sitting in the yard of the house next to a swingset while a man with a hose seems to be going to empty a septic system. The photographer seems to use mostly greens, browns, reds, and blues. This makes the photo much more vibrant and draws the attention of the viewer, and where the dirt and the grass connects creates a really cool effect making it look like two seperate places.the lighting is either early in the morning or close to night because everything seems to be a lot darker then when the sun is fully out.
Matthew Sutherland
12/13/2018 08:57:56 am
In this image, there is an area filled with the dirt next to a grassy area in front of many trees. The area filled with dirt is in the foreground of the image. This area is a reddish color. There are large mounds of dirt in this area. Also, in the foreground, there is a water truck that says Yankee Septic on it. The truck is a dark red color. There is a hose coming out from the truck. A man is holding the hose. He is wearing a white t-shirt, blue jeans, and boots. There are several green and red metal structures. One of these structures is steaming or smoking. It appeared that the man was about to spray water on the structure or he had just finished spraying the structure with water. There is debris on the ground next to the smoking structure.
Sergio Sanchez
12/13/2018 08:58:33 am
Claire Rollwitz
12/13/2018 08:58:53 am
The rule of thirds is being used in this image because the man and Yankee Septic tank are more towards the left third on the image. The point of view from which this photograph was taken is from above the man. Gregory Crewdson used a crane to get high enough to take this picture. I like how the artist photographed this image from the sky because it makes the image more interesting. It changes up standard photographs that are taken from eye level.
Teresa Lei
12/13/2018 08:59:37 am
The image was shot in a cloudy day. It includes a broad landscape with multiple actions simultaneously going on in this image. In the space closer to the camera there is brown soil, and in the left hand corner it is piled up as a small hill. A dark red fire engine is locating on the left and a person was putting out the fire in a small public restroom. If to go further, the image becomes extremely green. People are partying in the yard of the houses and various cars and trucks are parked across the road.
Clara Blume
12/13/2018 09:00:05 am
In this image, there is a two story, gray-blue house located o a plot directly adjacent to a construction site. On the construction site, there are mounds of dirt, tall, cylindrical, red and green containers, and a red Yankee Septic tuck with a long hose streaming from the back. There is a man in a white shirt holding the hose pointing directly at one of the red containers. This container appears to be steaming or smoking. There is a puddle to the right side of the frame in the construction site, showing it may have recently rained.
Farouk
12/13/2018 10:11:23 am
There is a shiny red truck with a tank that says “Yankee Septic” on it. There is a long hose coming out of the truck as a boy holds the pipe. The boy seems to be pointing the hose at a red portable restroom. There is smoke coming out of the portable restroom. The boy, truck, and restroom are on top of red dirt with a powdery like consistency. There are some cigarettes or spare parts laying on the ground next to the boy. Next, to the portable bathroom, there are more portable bathrooms in green and red. In the background, there is a huge dark green pine tree. On the right of the pine tree, there is a playground set. The playground set looks new with shiny silver bars and red coverings.
Sofia Galindo
12/13/2018 01:09:29 pm
This photograph by Gregory Crewdson involved lots of time and money spent on creating the scene so the image could be perfect. The time and meticulous placement of the objects must have taken a very long time, which is why the image is so perfectly set up. Crewdson sets his images up like a movie would be set up: a production crew, props, special lighting, and and an overall movie-like set up. His elaborate sets, cast, and lighting make it possible for him to create an image that is on the verge of fiction, but still has a real quality. His photos are always interesting, and sometimes even disturbing, which is why people spend big money to acquire his photographs.
Hasan Ehsan
12/13/2018 03:24:40 pm
This image is an extensive and in-depth depiction of suburban life. The photographer is on a crane to get this aerial shot. There’s a septic tank in the front that’s being used to collect waste, and there’s some kind of family friend picnic going in in the back. There’s a fair amount of cars to the right, and there’s a single tree near the middle of the image. There’s a lot of activities going on in the image, from somebody operating the septic tank to others walking around the grass and also people sitting down near the house. The image is trying to combine the entirety of suburban life in this one moment in time.
Eden Vogelsang
12/16/2018 11:08:39 am
This image is of what looks like a little town kind of in the middle of nowhere. there's bright green grass on some parts then brownish - reddish dirt on the other. there is a red septic truck with a man holding the end of a hose, a swing set, a white house, and a street. There are cars parked on the other side of the street. And in the backyard of the house, there are people. Comments are closed.
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