Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson is a contemporary photographer, the best way to describe the work that Geregory produces is that he makes hollywood inspired cinematic stills as his photographs look like movie stills and are made like them, as he doesn't take photographs he makes them, this can be seen in the way he carefully constructs his images as he employs a team of up to thirty five people to help him realise and build his visions, and it often takes them up to one month to produce one photo! Although his work is influenced by film he is more intrested in the limitations of a photograph, in terms of a photo's narrative capacity, as he likes that photography limits him to choose one moment in time to convey a narrative, so the viewer must imagine what comes before and after that one image to complete the story. The setting of his work is in the imagined suburban landscape of everyday america, inspired by where Gregory grew up in the east coast of america. What i enjoy about his work is the sense of drama and tension Gregory creates in one image, you can see this in his series of images intitled "Twilight" where there is a underlying feeling of anxiety and fear, he creates this by having beems or shafts of light, illuminating parts of an image which other wise are very dark toned.