Gregory Crewdson's: Brief Encounters
The subject in this picture is a man looking like the average person taking care of a mundane chore as something breaks his thought. Something perplexing could be above as he is just standing still. Gregory sets the stage for a magical picture, big budgets, props, and heavy reliance on light allow for ultimate control. The controlled light in this photograph is what intrigues me. I love the spots of light on the right adding depth to the picture, if Gregory did not do that we would loose our grasp on the extending road and scene. There is so much control of the light, everywhere in the picture, it is amazing. The set surrounding this scene, one would imagine would be monumental.
Gregory Crewdson's work always has a consistency in observable amount of control. One way to tell there is so much control is to simply view a photo, and be awe stricken. That loss of reality that you fall into shows how much work was put into these.
Design comes to mind, there is lots of it. Almost punching the viewer in the face with its surreal fist of aesthetic allure.
How it was made, one could only imagine. The bright light conjured from above was probably from some sort of spotlight. From the angles in the beam one would assume the source is twice as high as the scale from subject to edge of frame. This picture does not change my view on the world, but it celebrates the creativity that is peppered through the world.
The picture is timeless, a motif explored throughout the past. Familiarized tasks mixed with something improbable, a shatter in familiarity. Breaking the constructs of the 'everyday' we carry out. Something similar to "War of The Worlds", or any movie about invasion. This picture disrupts logic to induce a spell of grandeur, a spectacle respectively.
