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Gregory Crewdson

Crewdson is an American born photographer best known for elaborately staged surreal scenes of American homes and neighborhoods. He studied photography at SUNY Purchase near Port Chester, New York. He received his Master of Fine Arts from Yale University. Since then he has been working on the staff at Yale University as a faculty member since 1993. 

Rather than choosing just one photograph I thought I would address the photos as a whole because the photos are really presented as a whole to the public so I thought I would present them as a whole. Crewdsor works with a photographic tradition with the dream-like vision of contemporary flim-makers. His method is equally filmic building elaborate sets to take the pictures of extraordinary detail and narrative element. His recent series consist of Twilight and Beneath the Roses. These series are everyday scenes with charged surreal moods that relate to Suburban America. The best way to go about describing Crewdsor's series would be an incomplete sentence without any context describing what comes before and what comes after. 

 I personally love this series. I love what it is trying to say about American suburban life. I love that every picture tells a story. Stories are my absolute favorite I love being enthralled in a story and all the elements that are involved with it. And lastly I love the dreamlike qualities of the photos that is portrayed throughout the series. I love that effect on pictures and presented throughout a series makes it that much better. My favorite part of these pictures and these series is the quality of story but not just story. I love the fact that there is nothing before or after these pictures so it really leaves it up to your interpretation with a bit of guidance from the photographer.