Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson


Gregory Crewdson was born September 26th 1962. He is an a American photographer who is know for elaborately staged scenes. In the mid 1980s Crewdson studied photography at SUNY Purchase.

Crewdon's photographs are usually taken in a small town. He tries to make them look dramatic or cinematic. His pictures feature disturbing or surreal moments or events. He uses lighting and stages his photographs. He does this by useing a crew who know a lot about motion pictures.

Untitled from the series 'Twilight'
2001-2
Digital C-type print
Width 2236 mm x height 1148 mm
Sanders Collection, Amsterdam

This photograph shows a lonely man that has lost all of his cloths and a women just looking at him. It also is showing that there is some kindness in the photograph 

Untitled from the series 'Beneath the Roses'
2004
Digital chromogenic print
Width 2236 mm x height 1148 mm

 This photograph shows an old lady standing with her shopping and a lot of cars parked around the shop.

Untitled from the series 'Beneath the Roses'
2004
Digital chromogenic print
Width 2236 mm x 1148 mm

 This photograph shows a quit town, that has had something shocking or scary happened to it because of the car door that has been left open.




https://www.gagosian.com/artists/gregory-crewdson
http://www.artnet.com/artists/gregory-crewdson/

Narrative photography

Unit 31 Lo1 Blog Post 1

Narrative Photography 

Narrative photography is a way 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 photography.The Narrative Photography Competition describes the concept in the following way: "The power of narrative, or story telling is at the foundation of much of photography. 

Staged photography is involving a performance enacted before the camera. It embraces studio portraiture and character based scenarios directed or manipulated by the photography. It also captures staged scenes that are only for the photography.While this type of image became well known in the 1980s through the work of artists Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall.

Hipprolyte Bayard was born on 20th January 1807 and died on 14th May 1887. He created the first staged photograph, Self Portrait as a Drowned Man in 1840. 

Henri Cartier Bresson

Henri Cartier-Bresson  was born on August 22, 1908 and died August 3, 2004. He was a French photographer considered to be the father of photojournalism.He helped develop the street photography or life reportage style that was coined The Decisive Moment that has influenced generations of photographers who followed.His main choice of camera was the leica this shot in a 35mm format. When he was young he owed his own box brownie so that he could take snapshots when on holiday. He was inspired by a 1930 photograph by Martin Munkasci.                                                                                                                                                                                        

The visual style he focuses on geometry. He tried using vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines and curves and shadows into his photographs. He looks for geometry and shapes in the natural world. When taking photos he would be very patient and wait for the right moment. When waiting for the right photograph he would think about people, background and framing, he would wait for someone to walk past or he would wait until someone came to him. He would mostly wait for the photograph to come to him and not go and look for the photograph. He would travel the world and capture different styles of life and try and learn about the people around him. He would never crop his photographs. He would always send the pictures to someone he trusted so they could print them.

The picture is called The Quai de Javel. Plasterers which was taken in France 1932 
This video is of some of his best pictures that he took when walking around.

http://www.magnumphotos.com/C.aspx?VP3=CMS3&VF=MAGO31_10_VForm&ERID=24KL53ZMYN
http://erickimphotography.com/blog/2011/08/22/10-things-henri-cartier-bresson-can-teach-you-about-street-photography/