Gregory Crewdson - Close Up - Ovation
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- Опубліковано 15 вер 2024
- In this Ovation TV original special, acclaimed photographers Albert Maysles, Sylvia Plachy, Andrew Moore and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders discuss the impact their work has on their lives and on culture as a whole.
Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer who is best known for elaborately staged, surreal scenes of American homes and neighborhoods.
In this interview, acclaimed photographer, Gregory Crewdson shares with us insight into his techniques.
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Photography is much more than "pressing a button". What he does is called art... He thinks out a concept, he does hundreds of sketches and plans exactly how its ring to be set. He directs the very specific lighting and he creates a narrative in ONE picture. The camera is just a tool photographers use. Don't be ignorant.
Almost all his photos are masterpiece. What a genious!
He's one of my favourite photographers
I understand where you're coming from but Crewdson operates in exactly the way a director does, he is the father of the idea, he creates the direction for the piece and pulls the whole thing together. Would you say a director isn't responsible for a film just because he doesn't hold the camera or build the set?
First off photography is an art, i myself am a photography student and the first thing you learn is that you aren't a photographer until you've shot about a thousand rolls of film. The people that run around with $10,000 worth of equipment and have never stepped into a darkroom to produce a gallery worthy print, ARE NOT PHOTOGRAPHERS. This man is and he is an artist along with that. Anyone on their way to getting a degree will tell you the camera doesn't make the image the person behind it does
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This is facts
Being a photographer has more to do with than just "holding the camera." It's about composition, lighting, and more. There's a great deal of technique that goes into it. The shutter release is just the mechanical aspect. You could set it to timer and then no one's "holding" the camera. The captured image however remains the photographer's creation.
he thinks, the concept, the idea, the scence and finally he directs the scene.
I think I actually agree, although the final image is really good, and in fact he has taken one of the best photo's i have ever seen, he didn't actually do it, he made it possible and that's it...the person controlling the lighting, the person behind the camera clicking the button, that's the person i look up to. yes, someone said about the 'new michael gondry film' blah blah...but at the end of the day, it's the people behind it all that make it all come together. Well done to them!
He is a lot like a Director of Photography in a film set. He has the idea in his mind, he directs, but others do the work.
Before anyone can hold the camera, they should learn how to "see". He doesn't need to take the picture, he's already taken it in his head.
and as for the "he doesn't hold his own camera" discussion. He shoots with a large format camera, 8x10 negatives, have any of you ever held a large format camera to take a photo? No you haven't because it's physically impossible. He's made a career out of this and one photograph is worth three or fours times the amount that your car does. He can can have whoever he wants to do the set up for him. If you put batteries into my flash and i took a photo using it would you say you took it?
what a affectation!
actually, he's currently teaching at yale (where he got his MFA), so yale doesn't think he's dumb. the reason he doesn't do the digital work or the lighting is because he can pay other people to do it for him because he's made loads of cash making pictures like these. he functions much more as a director than as a photographer. it's the same as when people say "oh have you seen the new michel gondry film?". crewdson authors the narrative, supervises the execution, and puts his name on it.
People behind the scenes deserve the cash and respect? What do you think Crewdson is? Every artist has their own process. In his process, he functions the same as a director on a movie set. A director may not personally do the hauling or rigging or setbuilding, but he's still the one with the creative vision, the idea that makes the shoot possible. It's his job to coordinate it all.
Don't judge him by his process, judge him by the result.
Beautiful, don’t judge him by the process judge him by the result.
"and I think that, in retrospect, its a great metaphor..."
i think his photography goal is really connected to cinema. could you control and set up all that stuff by yourself?
Rich photography.
@Scudbook27 - what someone is willing to pay for something is not always an indicator of how good it is. A lot of art is manipulation of perception, and perception of value is part of it. I like the stuff Crewsdon produces, but I feel it's a bit of a circus act more than that it's photography, if that makes sense.
Can some one please tell me what he says in 2:25-2:30?
..."and I think that ????? aspect its a great metaphor for what I do now"
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He says ".... and I think THAT, in retrospect, is a great metaphor for what I do now."
"... and I think that, in retrospect, it's a great metaphor for what I do now."
@cobraii27 where is your work?
If any photographer would come up with it, why don't they?
A photographer that needs a director of photography. That says it all...
a director?
if all artistic photographer had his resources to use a film crew to light there photo, we would see a lot more of this.
I love his stuff, but: he doesn't work the camera, he doesn't do the lighting, he doesn't build the sets... What is he, an "executive photographer"?
debe mucho a Edward Hopper
how is he a photographer if he doesn't even hold the camera?
and that is just a VERY rich guy pressing the button
...oh wait , he doesn't even do that
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He spends so much time planning a photo to look real. Why doesnt he just find chance effects. Boring, wasteful fluff. He's already been dropped from the top tiers of art history. Thankfully.
artsy fartsy.
Gregory Crewdson is totally overrated, big spectacle doesn't make him a great artist. Just superficial effects