The obsession of the way that we believe woman should look, slim, beautiful, and how we portray a commercial woman to be a role model for young teens and middle age woman. Most human beings choose to believe this is how they should look to achieve happiness. Advertisement with fashion photography is one minded and controls the perception of female models.
How should the ordinary image look, the majority of photography has been staged but to the extent of being realistic, to create a piece of art that you can relate to and start to understand.
Gregory Crewdson takes the factors of common photography and stages his work on large life like scales, in order to structure and capture this fantasy of maybe how some places should be, in his mind the world is confused the way that people act and look at themselves, this is how the world should be, a stage, twilight fantasy
Best known for his elaborately choreographed large-scale photographs, Gregory Crewdson has become one of the most exciting and important artists working today. Twilight is the magic hour when ordinary routines undergo strange transformations. Crewdson’s Twilight series consists of 40 images from 1998 – 2002. The collision between the normal and the paranormal in these narrative images produces a tension that serves to transform the topology of the landscape into a place of wonder and anxiety.
These enigmatic photographs catch the mysterious moment of time between before and after, revealing unknowable or unimaginable aspects of domestic reality.
'I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformative quality. Its power of turning the ordinary into something magical and otherworldly. My wish is for the narrative in the pictures to work within that circumstance. It is that sense of in-between-ness that interests me.'
Crewdson is explaining that this in between time where a person stops everything and has this fantasy and alone time, thinking about everything in a quiet time. His work is so creative in the way that he is able to capture such emotion from his models, and with the help of his fantastic sets.
images from http://krystinaplante.blogspot.co.uk/2012/01/gregory-crewdson.html
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