Week Eleven

Gregory Crewdson

ABOUT HIM

Born in September 26, 1962. An American photographer and mainly photographs tableaux of American houses and neighbourhoods.

This is one of my favorite shot out of all his works. Firstly, there is a much things happening in this photo. There are so many questions I ask myself when I look at this photo. Why is the women lying there? Why is the house flooded with water and why is she floating on the water inside of sinking. How deep is the flood? What happened in the process before this happened.













I would say he is one of my favorite photographers. His works are so unique because back at that time, not many people would go for a planned out photo shoot. Usually, they are street photography which are realistic and candid. However, in this case this photographer he plans out his shoots. He plans out every detail of the photograph. From the settings/place, props, subject, lightning. Which is a lot of work done because every detail has to be taken into consideration.

Every photo tells a different story. Even though it is a plan out shoot but it is as real as what you could get off candid/street photography. The photos reflects reality. It really does reflects what happens indoors and in the neighbourhood. What actually made me like his work because I watched a documentary of how he carried out his shoots. Which I felt so amazed at the amount of manpower he has and work done behind the scenes.

What I find most fascinating about is how Gregory thinks and plan out an image like this. Like what sparks him off to create such images and is there a meaning behind all these images. It is really fascinating how he thought of a final image outcome and execute it. I believe all of such mindsets and ideas he had comes from his everyday observations in the neighbourhood.  Thus, he was able to capture the true reality of the area despite being planned out.