Gregory Crewdson

As part of my study ive been looking into photography to learn more about lens, like aperture and focus. Animating the depth of field is a great way to take the flatness out of a scene within Maya. Ive also been looking into various artist and one to catch my attention is Gregory Crewdson. Ive been looking through his work in a book of his called Twilight. His images seem to all be of a day to day suburban American life but lit up to tell another more sinister story. The lighting feels like something you'd see in a horror movie. The imagery is very cinematic and dream like. The photos of course are all staged and he has a large crew to help set up.

There are a few pages of text as an intro to the Twilight book by Rick Moody. What i found interesting was in the text he talks about Gregory Crewdson's childhood. His father was a psychologist who used to bring his sessions home and Gregory would over hear them. Would be interesting to know how much of that could have influenced his dream like imagery.