Diana Macaraeg - Weekly Post 7

Gregory Crewdson

• Gregory Crewdson is known for his dramatic and cinematic photography skills. He uses an 8 X 10 large format camera along with a ton of production, set design, lighting, and subjects. He is best known for his small American homes and neighborhoods as his 'settings'.
• Most, if not all, Crewdson's photos are all elaborately staged. He creates a setting that is highly mysterious and creepy to support his theme of his perspective on the America's suburbs. He chooses to highlight the untold struggles of a 'typical suburbian American' than to shine the life of rich and famous. 
• I am highly influenced by Gregory Crewdson. He shows that not all of photography has to be candid, but it can be elaborately set up in a studio. I greatly appreciate his lighting techniques and hope to appropriate him correctly over time.