Gregory Crewdson creates environments that he photographs by use of elaborate sets, lighting and props. His images conjure up the anxieties and desires under the veil of small-town American communities. Haunting with the air of mystery, his scenes prompts the viewer to look for clues within and eventually beyond the picture frame.
I really like this picture because it gives the impression that the body is emerging from under the floor, and the reflection makes it seem like it's the underworld or a spiritual place she's coming from. Or it can be that she is dead and now she is sinking into this spiritual opposite world.
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ReplyDeleteI was first introduced to this artist last year in Richard Ross's Art19 Photography class. We learned about him in conjunction with surrealism and various representations of the naked body. Crewdson's work his particularly interesting in the way that he presents desexualized, mundane nude female bodies. All of his photographs are staged and set up with props and specific lighting, which elicits an unexpected sense of loneliness, mysteriousness, dreaminess, and timelessness, often in a rather ordinary environment (such as a bedroom or a bathroom). The expressions on his subjects faces consistently feel frozen and lost among themselves.
ReplyDeleteI would highly recommend everyone to look up more of his works, he's incredible in my opinion!