© 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 midnight today! Refer to your "How to See" handout for analyzing a photograph--
Nathan Harrison
1/23/2020 12:32:05 pm
The image contains a mother in a bedroom sitting on a bed staring at her infant child sleeping on the other side of the bed. It appears to be during the winter season as there is snow on the ground outside the hotel room and the build up of frost on the window. The wall of the hotel is covered with a dark shade of red while the inside of the hotel room contains a combination of bright colors and mixtures. Most of the picture is covered with low lighting to emphasize the main subject of the photo that is is the area of brighter lighting.
Isabella
1/23/2020 12:33:27 pm
This image is taken of what appears to be outside of a hotel room or in. The inside of the building appears cold and uncomfortable as well as far from personal. In the structure sits a woman on the bed gazing at a small infant who lies sleeping. On the outside of the building dirty snow is piled up in heaps. The frost on the windows gives an eerie sense and makes the viewer feel cold with which the brain associated with mystery. The lighting is ominous and low and the natural hues of evening are projected on the outside of the building even though it could be bright enough to appear as day. The lighting contrast between the outdoors and indoors intentionally highlights the figures in the bedroom. Although distress is not a word that I could use to describe the image, uncertainty and disdain are radiated throughout the image.
Chloe C
1/23/2020 12:34:07 pm
Gregory Crewdson’s image is of a short, faded red apartment in which you can see inside. Through the window, an obviously young baby is visible lying on the bed. A woman, possibly the mother, is sitting on the edge of the bed watching the child. On the outside of the house, it is dark and there is snow that has been piled up against the walls. Not fresh snow, though, it is very dirty and obviously not new.
Kellen Dukatnik
1/23/2020 12:37:25 pm
The image by Gregory Crewdson depicts a woman sitting inside a small motel room on her bed with a baby on the foot of her bed without any covers on a cold night. It uses dark colors or colors you could find at any ordinary hotel. The lighting is made to make it appear night. The objects included are a fully furnished hotel room and snow. The woman is staring at the baby with a face that displays she is tired and exhausted.
Flint Rose
1/23/2020 12:39:28 pm
This piece depicts a house or more likely a motel room. It is dark and cold outside. The snow on the porch gives this away. The windows and the door are perfectly transparent so the viewer can see inside. The buildings exterior looks very old and worn down.
mateo
1/23/2020 12:39:39 pm
This photograph by Gregory Crewdson is of a rented room in a motel from the outside. There are dark colors being used like grey, black, and dirty white with the inside of the room being beige. The lighting is provided by moonlight on the outside and on the inside by a lamp and light bulbs. There is a car on the left of the image and an overhang covering above the door and the window. There is a bathroom and a bedroom with one bed and a lady with a baby. The lady is watching the baby sleep.
Ben Barlow
1/23/2020 09:40:50 pm
Brief encounters by American photographer Gregory Crewdson are a series of tableau photographs published in 2012. These pictures were staged by professional film teams with Crewdson organizing all of it. The entire project took over a decade to complete. In this particular photo, a woman and a baby are seen resting in a bedroom through a window. Outside, the poles and the door frame seem to resemble that of an old motel. From context, we can infer that they found shelter on a cold winter’s night.
Abby Muir
2/9/2020 06:06:41 pm
The image appears to be from a third person point of view. You are looking into a house with a mother and her child on a bed. It looks cold and dark outside. All of the doors in the house are either open or glass, so you can see straight into them. The house appears to be a bit run down, because the paint is chipping and the property isn’t very big. Comments are closed.
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