I have again been looking at Crewdson’s work and I came across some that I haven’t seen before. I had a read through his book ‘Dream of Life’, I love looking at his work it is just so mysterious and really makes you want to know more about the image. What happened before and after this was taken. Even though they are all staged and you know that he uses elaborate sets and a crew probably big enough to direct a movie, even though you no this I still want to know more, you could mistake some of his images as a still from a film. I would love to be able to create this effect, to put people in a trance thinking of their own narrative. It would be quite good to show around ten to twenty people a Crewdson photograph and get them to wright down what they think the beginning and end is, their own personal stories that they would have thought up just because of this one image.
I read this book and took some quotes from it and to see what Crewdons state of mind is like around his images.
“Creating a moment that is frozen, perhaps ultimately asks more questions than it answers, proposes an open ended ambiguous narrative, that allows the viewer to, in a sense, complete it.”
I believe this is from the ‘Twighlight’ series, because it looks a similar setting to other images from it. I am not 100% sure if it is but when you look at this image it makes you feel uncomfortable, as if you were in the postition of the people sitting at the table, this is what I think others may feel uncomfortable for the naked woman, wonder why she is standing there before what could be the rest of her family?
There were some images in his book that I haven’t seen before and as of yet I have not been able to find them on the interent anywhere. There are some disturbing yet beautiful photos of decaying body parts, there is so much attention to detail and some people would probably find the images difficult to look at to begin with, I did, but then I just looked closer at the surroundings, the decaying part of a leg juxtaposes with the background which is scenery of some woods, and I can’t remeber if it was from this collection but he would usually have some focus on a shape, more than likely a circle and with many of the images included in this book you could usually see a house in the background.
“Embrace what you fear most is an aspect of being an artist”.
Crewdson was asked in an interview that I read, what do you think is disturbing or disgusting (if I remember correctly this was after talking about his images of the decaying body parts)
“Something that scares me is reality, whenits a representation, when its separate from the world, it more effortlessly becomes poetic or beautiful”
