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--
Claire Williams
12/7/2017 12:25:50 pm
This image is of a man, on his knees in a living room of a house. There is a mound of grass built up on the left side of the image, and the rest of the ground is full with mat-like grass. The man appears to be working on rolling up all of this grass and adding it to the mound. The main color being used is green, but there is also a little bit of a warm yellow from the lamp, and the man’s shirt is white. Overall this image is on the dark side, but it still has a good level of exposure and only a tiny bit of shadow clipping on the far left side and the bottom right corner.
Payton Down
12/7/2017 12:28:10 pm
This image is of a men who is putting grass down on the floor of a house. The man looks like he has found something in the ground under a grass. The grass is in the house along with many things like rocks and sticks. The colors in the image are green, and then some wood colors in the background. The lighting that was used was a studio set-up. The whole image was a set-up to tell its own story. There is a man in the photo. The abstract thing about the photo is that the grass and rocks are inside the house. Nature usually isn't in the house. The man looks like he just found something, there is some light source projecting on his face from the ground which gives me the idea that he just found something valuable like treasure.
Annie Mosis
12/7/2017 12:29:12 pm
In this image by Gregory Crewdson there are many strange unusual matters happening. There is a man in the center of the photo sitting inside and rolling grass out inside. The walls of the house seem to look like a old home with floral paper. There's a piano placed up against the wall and a lamp . On the ground the man seems to be covering something up in the middle. I think there's also trash on the floor from a long time ago. Im this image Gregory is using warmer tones in this image. In this image he is also using a studio setup light causing drastic shadows and high contrast. 12/7/2017 12:29:58 pm
The image appears to be taken inside a dark room. This room looks dilapidated and messy, and there are a few things that do not belong. The glaring one is that the loor appears to be made out of grass. In the center of the image is a man with dirt all over him. He seems to be doing yard work and cleaning up the area, even though it is inside. The image is comprised of dark colors. The grass is presented in a very dark tone. The lighting in the image appears to be simply a dimly lit lamp and barely lit overhead lights. The objects included in the image are simply the furnishings that you would find in an ordinary house. The one abnormality is the grass that is being worked on by the man.
Elizabeth Wray
12/7/2017 12:31:01 pm
This is an image by gregory crewdson. He was is an american photographer that lives in New York. The image is of an older man rolling up grass. The weird part of the image is that he is inside a house. The grass was staged, that means it was set up on its own. It almost seems like a movie set. The image is dark, maybe a darker exposure used by the camera. The man is wearing a white t shirt and jeans. His clothes are dirty. In the corner, there is a lamp that is on. That is one of the only lights in the room. Towards the left, the grass turns into a hill. The hill looks like it is going up to the ceiling.
Naty Orquin
12/7/2017 12:33:31 pm
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Brandon Collins
12/7/2017 12:34:04 pm
The image is of a man who is putting dirt and grass in his house.The colors that are being used are dark colors I feel like dark colors are being used because the image is not supposed to look happy or cheerful. The lighting is artificial there are dark shadows.The objects included are a few lamps in the background, trash on the floor, a piano, and some picture frames.The action being performed in the image is he placing grass on the ground and piling it up to make it seem like a hillside on the left side of the image.
Parker Brown
12/7/2017 12:37:50 pm
The image is a picture of a man in a house with grass everywhere, and he is all dirty. In the image it looks like the man is digging in the ground or just rolling up the grass. There is a lot of greens being used because of the overgrown wildlife in the house, and also a lot of darkness is being used to show that the house is old and probably hasn’t been used in a very long time. The man looks like he has been all in the dirt because of how dirty his shirt is which makes me think he has something valuable buried under the floor that he needs to get. There is also a lot of trash on the floor which makes me think that the house is old and abandoned.
Matthew Weiss
12/7/2017 12:40:28 pm
The image is a larger scale, higher budget production image by Gregory Crewdson. The image is of a man rolling out grass. The strange thing is that the man is rolling out the grass inside of a house. The background of the image is composed of the back wall of the room and off to the left and in the front of the image, is a hill. The image is very dimly lit, with most of the light coming from dim lamps, and lights from the ceiling. The light in the image all has a very warm yellow tone, except for the harsher light, coming from a hole in the floor. In the photo, the man is looking down into the hole, and it is shining a harsher light, up and into the room from below.
Jordan Bell
12/7/2017 01:08:34 pm
This photograph, taken by Gregory Crewdson, depicts a male subject in the middle of a living room laying down grass. The entire floor of the room appears to be covered in dirt and grass. The subjects shirt is dirty from the hole he had been diggin in the middle of the room. And the floor and the subject are cigarettes and other trash. Mainly browns, greens and creams are utilized in this image. In this photo there are two type of light, the yellow-ish light coming from the lamp and other light sources throughout the photo and the bright white like coming from the hole, illuminating the subject.
Lucas Prado
12/8/2017 10:52:51 am
So this image is of a guy kneeling, either rolling up or setting down some topsoil, yet the topsoil is being set up inside of his house, in what looks to be a living room. The topsoil has some tears in it throughout the room, where light shines through, especially on the guy. There is also a mound of spare topsoil to the guys right, in a pile that stretches to the top of the room. The living room contains a nightstand with a lit lamp on top and a desk. The desk, oddly enough, has a book of sheet music open and on display on top of it. The guy himself is only wearing a t-shirt and jeans, and both look fairly worn and stained from working for a while.
Gilly Thompson
12/8/2017 11:41:54 am
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