Andrei Allen UCA Broadcast Media Blog

I've decided to do some research on Gregrey Crewdson since this project is based off of his work, and also to find out what sort of person he is, the way he does his work, and also the inspiration behind his work so that I could possibly understand the ideas his trying to convey in his work of art.

So just who is he?

interesting read about his inspiration and thoughts on his work in interview he done features in the telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/alastair-sooke/3672716/Gregory-Crewdson-what-dark-secrets-does-this-picture-hold.html

A good paragraph taken from an art website by written by simen 

http://enthusiasms.org/post/199384340

Alex Soth born( 1969) American photographer

Alec Soth has said that photographs can’t, or at least rarely tell a story. There is no beginning, middle and end, there is simply the moment. You can’t tell a story in one single instant. Unlike narrative art, like literature and movies, a photo can’t tell a story by itself; it’s like tearing a single sentence, page or chapter from a larger novel or short story, but even that metaphor is weak, because even a sentence can show a progression in time or character, but a photo is forever a single moment — there’s no past, present and future, there is only the present. You can begin to tell a story by assembling a sequence of pictures, or combining them with text, but Crewdson does neither. The pictures in Beneath the Roses are united by theme rather than by story. Instead, Crewdson uses the photographic medium’s great deficit, which is also its strength, namely that it captures a single moment precisely, rather than a sequence of moments approximately. Crewdson’s pictures don’t tell a story, they evoke a story, and likely a different one in each viewer.

Russell Banks (born 1940) is an American writer on fiction and poetry

Crewdson’s pictures are often compared to movies, both for their large-scale production and for the look of the end product.The one sensible observation in the introductory essay by Russell Banks is that Crewdson’s pictures resemble movies, but are unlike movies in that they can’t and don’t tell a story: instead, they’re open-ended, they invite the viewer to imagine a story for themselves. According to Banks, this makes them less passive than a movie, because in a film, the audience’s imaginative liberty is taken away as the story is laid bare in front of their eyes. Literature, on the other hand, gives you the story but leaves you to picture it, while photography in the Crewdson style gives you one visual moment and invites you to both imagine and picture the rest. Thus, according to Banks, Crewdson’s audience is less passive than the audience of a movie, even an art movie.

Conclusion

So yea this research i feel has been very useful, from knowing nothing at all about Gregory Crewdson, to now understanding some of the inspiration behind his work and the detail he puts into it; and also how his work is interpreted has definitely given me some more creative ideas towards my approach for the planning of this project, so hopefully the sound design i create would  match the way how the picture was intended to be perceived as.