Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer. His images are taken in small towns around America but are dramatic and cinematic. He’s mixing the documentary style with film making. Crewdson is interested in freezing the time in his images. The photographs appear like they are taken from a movie where the scene was paused. The details in the work is what matter the most to Crewdson. To some viewers the images might appear dramatic almost surreal. One can argue that they are almost a representation on perspective of life and death. They main key to Gregory Crewdson work is the lighting. It sets the whole mood and the way the viewer receives the photograph. Crewdson is constructing the world in the images. Every aspect of the images is correctly planned and organised. He takes the photographs in series rather than as single shoot. Every detail is well thought of, to create excusive series of images. …show more content…
In this photograph he created artificial ice to make it look like real snow, creating assumption that it was winter time, added special lighting and mixed the image with the environment to enhance the natural moment of twilight. In the results he created disturbing reality. The viewer is drowned to the woman sitting on the bed and a new born laying right next to her. The photograph is in colour. The lighting used in this image is almost settled. There is one part of the light coming from the side make like it’s from a lamp post. The other light is coming from above, mixture of real and artificial light. The door is see through, every object is visible. The house looks clean and tidy, not like a place where a woman just gave birth. The baby is laying in its own, making the viewer question weather she wants the