For your final critical analysis, you will be writing about a photograph made by artist Gregory Crewdson.
Write 5 paragraphs, 5 sentences minimum per paragraph. Remember, refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--
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. 4/27/2017 11:32:42 am
The image seems to be about a boy that is reaching down the the drain of the shower. I think that he is trying to get his keys or something that is important. The image uses soft colors for the top half of the image such as blue, pink, brown, white, and various light greens. The image includes a toilet, a sink, a cabinet, a shower, and a person that is trying to catch something that he dropped.
Eric Hammond
4/27/2017 11:33:56 am
This is a photograph of a bathroom. The bottom third of this photo is underground. The middle third is the bottom part of the bathroom. the top third of the photo is the top half of the bathroom. there is a color difference between the top and middle third.
Mary Warder
4/27/2017 11:34:18 am
This image portrays a boy in the scene of a bathroom. The boy is reaching into the ground, and his arm has broken through. Underneath the floor where he has broken through, the pipes beneath the bathroom are visible. Next to the boy is the shower drain, and you can see his hand is reaching down into the place where the drain was. Because of his position and the look on his face, it seems as though the boy may be searching for something. 4/27/2017 11:39:59 am
This image shows a bathroom which shows the bathroom itself and the floor under the bathroom with the pipes and and wires. The character within the photo is in the center of the image, is a boy, who seems to be striped down to his underwear. This boy is also attempting to reach down into the drain and fix the shower piping. The bathroom is very neat and tidy and has regular bathroom appliances such as a bathtub, shower, toilet, and a cabinet. The colors within the photo are mainly pink and blue which contrast each other. 4/27/2017 11:40:22 am
This photograph was taken by American photographer: Gregory Crewdson. It shows a young teenager in a bathroom shower. He is shown reaching his hand down the drain like he is looking for something. The bathroom has necessity bland things in a bathroom like a sink, toilet, cabinet, and a bathtub. This photograph shows the drainage system part of the house and shows all the pipes and everything that is usually under a bathroom.
Emmet Owen
4/27/2017 11:41:31 am
This photograph by Gregory Crewdson depicts a boy in the shower. This photo was staged in order to convey the message that Crewdson wanted. The photograph shown on the top portion is during the morning. The bottom half appears to be during the night. I am not quite sure the reason that he is sticking his hand down the drain. 4/27/2017 11:42:24 am
In this image,it shows a boy reaching into the drain of his shower.It is using dark colors to show mystery in this image.The lighting is very bright above on the ground floor, but then gets darker as it shows beneath the floor. There is a sink, shower, bath, toilet and numerous other objects in this image. In the image, the young man toke off the drain cover and stuck his hand down it.
Isabela Ruiz
4/27/2017 11:42:49 am
This image is taken in an old bathroom with a boy reaching down through the floor. The boy is half naked. He is sitting on his knees with chest down reaching through the floor for something. The colors are very mysterious looking. The colors are pink and blue. The lights are very mysterious looking with a peak of sun light shinning on the wall of where the tub is. Below the floor there are pipes that are very rusty and the lightning is a dark mysterious blue. In this image the boy somehow manages to get his arm through the floor. The arm is hanging under the tile floor and stranded by itself with the pipes. I have no idea what the boy is trying to reach for because under the bathroom there is nothing. 4/27/2017 11:46:50 am
This image, made by Gregory Crewdson, shows a teenage boy who is in the shower, wearing only underwear. The boy seems to have taken the drain out from the bottom of the shower and is now reaching down into the whole in the ground. Along with the shower, there is also a toilet, a bathtub, and a vanity in the bathroom. However, there is also a section of the image that shows what is under the bathroom. In the top half of the image, the main colors are light blue and pink and in the bottom they are darker blues and black.
Bailey Dietzmann
4/27/2017 11:47:43 am
This is a photograph of a boy in his shower reaching down a drain. The image shows what is underneath the drain and the posts supporting the floor. The rusted drain itself is beside the little boy. The colors are blue and pink. The color that pops out is the wooden chest to the right of the shower. The curtain is wide open and pushed to the left of the shower. There is a hint of sunlight beaming in through a small window on the side of the bath. It is illuminating the towels over the bath.
Kristina Samuel
4/27/2017 11:50:02 am
The photograph above portrays a straight on shot of a staged scene. The picture includes an actual stage where the set of a bathroom seems to be shown. We view the inside of a shower and a man reaching into the drain, with his arm going through and seen dangling from under the stage. Even though this photograph was taken on a stage, the scene is lit up by natural light coming through from the window.
Rylin
4/27/2017 11:51:40 am
This image is of a boy reaching down below his shower floor. The image also shows that the boy used tools such as a hammer and a screwdriver in order to remove the shower drain. The boy now has access to the pipes below the shower, but it is unclear what his intentions were. The lighting in the image is studio set-up, because this image was set up by Gregory Crewdson, so the lighting is intentional. The objects included in the image are the boy, the shower, and other bathroom necessities such as a toilet, bath tub, sink, and cabinet.
Tamyka Mena
4/27/2017 11:54:54 am
The image is of a teenage boy in the shower reaching for something that fell through the drain. The photograph contains many cool tones. However, pinks and blues stand out the most. The bathroom lighting seems to be fluorescent but the sunshine coming from the window warms it up. The majority of objects in the image are things you'd typically find in a bathroom: towels, sink, and a scale.
Montserrat Martinez
4/27/2017 11:59:16 am
Crewdson's photograph shown above is of a man reaching into the drain from his bathroom. Basically, it looks a though he lost something, or simply accidentally dropped the soap. It looks as though he's reaching and searching for the something that's underneath the main picture. I believe this can be a reference to Crewdson's father being a psychotherapist, or simply intent of Crewdson himself to portray how he's trying to reach us, the audience, from our emotional core to the outside. Either one could work in my opinion.
Hannah Lashway
4/27/2017 12:03:03 pm
The image shown was shot by Greg Crewdson, he is a photographer who graduated from Yale School of Art. He nows serves as the director of photography at Yale. His photographs focus on suburban or home environments that are dramatized to a point of surrealism. As a photographer he is recognized for his elaborate sets. Most of his photographs have a contrast in color or a monotone setting to invoke the idea of melancholy or sadness.
Poni Bryan
4/27/2017 12:07:39 pm
The image above is of a young man who I reaching for something within the drain of his shower. The man is in a bathroom will outdated interior and the drain system is seen beneath the floor of the bathroom. Colors seen in this photo are blue and pink. The walls of the bathroom have pale pink tint and the tile is blue. The towels are pink and the drain system its self is blue. The lighting beneath the floor is dark and has shadows and the only thing lit beneath the floor is the mans hand. The lighting above the floor is bright and sunlight is coming in through a window.
Sebastian Sotomayor
4/27/2017 12:08:03 pm
The image shows a "bisected bathroom" composed of two sections: the ground-level section, and the underground section. On the ground-level, we can see a bathroom painted pink on the upper walls, with dark blue tiles on the bottom section of the ground. The bathroom is complete with a cubicle style shower (white sides and dark blue, open curtain) a tub on the left side of the shower, and a sink, toilet, and storage mirror (with its own lights) on the right side of the image. Inside the shower cubicle we can see a young man kneeling down to the ground, wearing only his underwear reaching through through the shower drain, unto the underground section of the image. Next to the boy we can see a screwdriver, some rubble, and the drain he took out of his shower's floor. On the underground section of the image, there are various dirty pipes coming from the various water-using appliances found on the ground-floor, and the young man's arm, reaching down underground, far from reaching the ground of the subterranean area. The whole underground area has a musty dark blue color, similar to the color of the shower curtain and the tiling on the ground-floor. Comments are closed.
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