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 it for homework before your next class on FRIDAY, 12/8/17. Refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--
Ryan Kyle
12/7/2017 11:24:26 am
This image is of a man holding a hose that is attached to a septic tank. The image uses a lot of grey, green, and brown for its color scheme. The lighting looks like it is from an overcast day. The objects in this image are the man, the septic tank, and the porta-potties. The man in the image appears to be in a stance with the hose in which it looks like he is about to fight off a monster.
The image chosen is a picture of a company called Yankee Septic hosing the inside of a port-a-potty. The image has a very bright sun and if photoshopped, couldn't do much about it. There's only one person in the image and he's the only one who is handling a hose. The photo by Gregory Crewdson is a scenery photo and is very good and time taking image. This image probably took a lot of effort and also had to have a very fast shutter speed for the hose. 12/7/2017 11:29:44 am
I have a 50/50 on liking and not liking the image and I think this wasn't the best spot to shoot an image for your career. I still think the image would be appealing to some people but I unfortunately don't agree. The image was successful for what he was trying to accomplish. This guy must have needed to prepare mentally for the challenges he had in store for him. Everyone got a win an I think if he likes it, I like it too.
Marissa Elizondo
12/7/2017 11:35:26 am
This image of a man holding a septic hose to a porta-potties. In the background you can see trees, cars, a house, and people. This image was taken outside with natural lighting. The colors in this image are very bright. The color scheme mainly consists of greens, browns, greys, reds.
Mikaela Mumme
12/7/2017 11:38:59 am
This image is of a man with a hose spraying water on what looks like porta potties. There is another family in the background and it looks more nicer where they are versus the man. In the background in front of the house, there is a Christmas tree and a truck where the hose is attached. This image is very vibrant in colors with lots of red, green, and brown. The lighting is very good in this image and for outside having nice diffused light.
Maria Tirado
12/7/2017 11:44:08 am
This image by Gregory Crewdson is of a landscape most recognizable as a suburb. Mr. Crewson is an American photographer and he likes taking pictures of set up areas that may look melancholic. He also like to stage suburbia images and make them as dramatic as possible. This image is an example of one of his suburb images. He scattered for a location and came across this one with mountains of dirt and old looking houses. Once he had his location in mind, he ordered 5 portable toilets, and a big truck with a hired guy to stand there with a long hose looking cable.
Troy Rollwitz
12/7/2017 11:45:57 am
In this image from Gregory Crewdson it appears to be set in some small town in New England, because that is where he lives and the trees and landscape look like they are from there. We see a man who appears to be taking the sewage out of the porta pottys, while stream comes out of the toilet. The main colors in the photo are green, brown, and red. The lighting is very diffused, and a little dark.
Kate Madison
12/7/2017 11:49:33 am
This is an image where a Yankee Septic truck is cleaning some portable restrooms in what seems to be a dirty area. This image is using natural colors. This image is using natural lighting because it is outside. There are many trees, cars, portable restrooms, and more in this image. In this image Gregory Crewdson has set up a film-like set.
Jessica Mims
12/7/2017 04:45:22 pm
This is a photo by Gregory Crewdson. It is a staged photograph. The subject is a man holding a water hose. He is surrounded by red port-a-potties. There is smoke coming out of one of the port-a-potties. He is in an open area that looks like it could be a campground. There is a white building in the background, and several parked cars and trucks. The colors in the photo are dark; mostly green, red, and brown.
Larissa Esparza
12/7/2017 06:21:11 pm
This image is of a piece of land which is covered by both dirt and grass. The background is trees and hills that are off in the distance. On the piece of land there is a septic truck that has a hose coming out of it to get the waste out of two portable toilets. The two portable toilets are red and in the dirt area of the land. There are other cars in the background and some are parked at what seems to be either a house or restaurant.
Zach Burgos
12/7/2017 08:12:44 pm
The image contains a small town that has a person is going to suck the sewage from the porta potty but stream comes out from it. The colors the image is using are Green, Red, and White. The lighting is bright sunlight. The image contains a people, a Christmas tree, a Yankee Septic truck, porta-potties, a house, cars, power lines, and trees. A man is going to clean the sewage from the portapotties, but when he opens it, a mysterious mist and light come from a porta potty.
Marynez Cantu Cardenas
12/8/2017 09:10:01 am
This photograph was captured by Gregory Crewdson. He is famous for treating pictures as if they were films and invests a lot of money just to capture these photographs. This photograph seems to have been taken in the suburbs of the city, by how he works it was more than likely staged. There is many things going on in just this picture, one of the things that I realized was that there is a portable toilet and there is a man that is going to take all of the waste out just when he realizes that there is something unusual about this toilet.
Josh Salehi
12/8/2017 10:21:34 am
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