Photographer Case Study "Gregory Crewdson" Chris N

Gregory Crewdson was born on September 26th 1962
He is an American Photographer best known for elaborately staged scenes of American homes and neighborhoods. 

Crewdson was born in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. He attended John Dewy Hight School, graduating early.

As a teenager, he was part of a punk rock group called The Speedies.

In the mid 1980s, Crewdson studied photography at SUNY purchase, near Port Chester, NY. He received his Master of Fine Arts from Yale University. He has taught at Sarah Lawrence, Cooper Union, Vassar College, and Yale University where he has been on the faculty since 1993. He is now a professor at the Yale University School of Art.In 2012, he was the subject of the feature documentary film "Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters". 

Untitled, 1998
C-print, Diasec
135,5 x 152,4 cm
Courtesy the artist; DZ Bank Kunstsammlung; Luhring Augustine, New York
© Gregory Crewdson   

This is photograph gives a very alien like feeling by using a ray of light and a person towards the right in a sub-urban American neighborhood , like all of his work this photo looks like it could be taken out of a movie due to his style being Staged/Narrative Photography. 

The photo is being staged and taken at night , that combined with the ray of light helps to bring everything out in the photo. 

Untitled, 2001
C-print, Diasec
122 x 152,4 cm
Courtesy the artist, DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Luhring Augustine, New York
© Gregory Crewdson
This photograph has a very mysterious because it is staged to look like an accident has just happened and the ray of light from the fence towards the right and the person getting out of the car midd action gives an impression that something is about to happen but its caught in the moment.
The blue dawn/dusk sky also contrasts the sky from the ground and the quiet and small road in the neighborhood 

This photograph is one of GC most recent photos its from a series of photos called Brief Encounters. It gives a very abandoned  like feeling to it because of the woman standing at the edge of the road and the car in the middle of the street. These two components are the only subjects in the photo which gives it that abandoned feeling  

2012/ HD / Color / 16:9 (1.78:1) / 79 min 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Crewdson

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/p/gregory-crewson/

Narrative/Staged Photography - Chris N

NARRATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY 

Narrative photography is the idea that photographs can be used to tell a story. Allen Feldman stated that "the event is not what happens. The event is that which can be narrated". In this case, the medium is photograph. 

  
Narrative photography example 


Photographer: Lawrence Ripsher 
Cameras used: Canon 5D (Mark I) and a Canon EF 24-105mm f/4L zoom 
Editing Software: Photoshop Cs2 










This photograph shows a girl in a chair sitting in a very depressed like position, The rule of 3 is applied due to the subject of the photo is placed towards the right of the frame. The space left on the left side gives the photograph a very desolated and abandoned feeling. The reflection of the girl in the water and the rubbish around her also connotes a feeling of loneliness.






Staged photography involves a performance enacted before the camera. 
It embraces studio portraiture and character driven scenarios directed or manipulated by the photographer.