George crewdson

[nikosarafis]

What's your opinion about him and if you could tell me what technique he is using to get that image?Like a comic.They say it's some filter.Is this true?

[Roger]

From the little that I have seen of his work it seems like he uses very controlled lighting and specifically designed sets. I have not seen anything that looks filtered on the lens.

[nikosarafis]

So if i want to achieve that comic look i have to play with the light?I think it has use of photoshop.Sorry to for the insist.Also when you do still photography do you prefer directed scenes?Sets,actors and all that staff...

[eng-shen]

i remember seeing some of his photos years ago, there was one he took of Julianne Moore which was particularly stunning, but desolate. But i also read somewhere that he would spend thousands of dollars to hire big movie lights in order to light the environment and his subject matter. They are all visually stunning images but also rather empty, and i guess that was his theme......Gregory Crewdson is his name by the way.

[Roger]

I agree that they are visually stunning but empty. Personally, I admire them more than I like them, but then I like documentary work rather than the staged.

[nikosarafis]

Me to..but still i admire his skill...

[battoire]

Gregory Crewdson


Born Brooklyn, New York, 1962

'I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformative quality. Its power of turning the ordinary into something magical and otherworldly. My wish is for the narrative in the pictures to work within that circumstance. It is that sense of in-between-ness that interests me.'
Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson reworks the American suburb into a stage-set for the inexplicable, often disturbing, events that take place at twilight. In creating what he calls 'frozen moments', he has developed a process akin to the making of a feature film. Operating on an epic scale, he uses a large crew to shoot and then develop the images during post-production.

Every detail of these images is meticulously planned and staged, in particular the lighting. In some instances, extra lighting and special effects such as artificial rain or dry ice are used to enhance a natural moment of twilight. In others, the effect of twilight is entirely artificially created.

All the images propose twilight as a poetic condition. It is a metaphor for, and backdrop to, uncanny events that momentarily transport actors from the homeliness and security of their suburban context.


Cut and Pasted from the V&A website. I saw the exhibition there called 'Twilight'. His work was probably the most stricking, certainly in terms of technical effort. I think I remember reading that alot of his more recent (post 2000) work involves multiply images of the same scene, compted together afterwards in photoshop. Very cinematic both in the way he works and the end product.

[octopoli]

i thought dicorcia's street pictures were interesting http://www.fundacion.telefonica.com/at/ ... rcia01.jpg
http://www.albrightknox.org/acquisition ... Corcia.jpg
http://images.artnet.com/artwork_images ... corcia.jpg