Nothing to do with foodage
but you guys have to go check this guy's photos out. You should read the little blurb about him, too. His photos look like their from movies, and they're really subtly disturbing. Meme said, "Now this is a guy who understands fear." These photos generate for me that proto-fear, the unease where you know things are starting to get a little wiggy, but you can't pinpoint the source yet.
It's really fascinating. Even though the photos are really creepy, I like them, because they're SO GOOD at evoking that feeling. They really are works of art. I think I'm going to order the books.
Dude, you KNOW that chick in the kitchen with all the flowers has done something just mind-bendingly terrible. And not just once, either.
*shiver* Okay, I'm going to go watch some Julia Child or something to shake this off.
It's really fascinating. Even though the photos are really creepy, I like them, because they're SO GOOD at evoking that feeling. They really are works of art. I think I'm going to order the books.
Dude, you KNOW that chick in the kitchen with all the flowers has done something just mind-bendingly terrible. And not just once, either.
*shiver* Okay, I'm going to go watch some Julia Child or something to shake this off.
posted by Helen | 10:50 AM
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Perhaps my brain is warped...but I am studying these images and didn't really get any sense of proto-fear in them. I got mixed emotions, but not fear or worry. Hmmmmm.
The flower-chick: frustration.
The guy reaching through his shower floor: wonder/magic.
As the pictures themselves, they are mostly relaxing or worried, and very cinematic. Yet, until I start picturing them in movies, and force myself to see them outside my initial insincts, they don't seem too wiggly to me.
Analyze that as you will. It's interesting to read that others got a horror-type feeling from them when I most distinctly did not unless I looked specifically for that emotion and brought outside influences to the picture. COOL!!
Thanks, Maebius - I wondered too if there was something wrong with me, because except for the floor-scrubbing guy, I didn't get the creepy feeling, either. Beautiful photos, but scary? Not so much. The flower kitchen lady just seemed sad, like she wanted to be somewhere else - made me think of "stuck in suburbia but wants to be running through a meadow somewhere." I loved the reaching into the shower picture - it looked to me like someone having a moment of just figuring out that there is much more to the world than his sterile little environment. A happy moment, a breaking-free moment.
They all have that feeling - that there are many, many other worlds outside the mundane bubble and surrounding yourself with normalcy will not change this fact.
Thanks! I hope you do get the book; I will come look at it.
Nettle: out of my brain! :)
What say we find Wren that book if the dorkus doesn't get it for her first? I would love to glam over it too first-hand.
Really? Nope, those photos show up as horror and despair in my head. They're too dark to be anything but.
I wrote this whole long thing with all the dark images I saw, but I deleted it. If you guys see good things, no reason for me to spoil it for ya.
What do you think of the one on his website? Birth?
http://www.aperture.org/crewdson/
I dunno, for me there is a subtle sense of things misplaced, just shy of where they should be. I guess it depends on how you read them. If you think that the artist is trying to say something with a woman growing flowers inside her house on the kitchen floor, then you might feel something different than if you thought he was a voyeur who had simply caught her doing the same thing.
My brain seems to read them as "paintings" even though I can see that they are photos, and I'm very accustomed to looking at surreal paintings, so maybe that's why I don't get a creepy feeling from them.
"Birth" looks sad - the baby and the mom are in the same room but they look totally disconnected from each other. She's looking at the baby but not really seeing it. I get a post-partum-depression feeling from the mom, which is just sad. Makes me want to reach in there and help them both.
Amazing that he can pack so much feeling into one photo, and even more amazing that I look at it and see this whole story, and someone else looks at it and plays out a completely different story and has totally different feelings.
I LOVE "Oak Street." It looks... religious, I guess. The oak, the women who looks like the Venus of Willendorf, the river in flood - all very primal symbols of natural power, in front of this boring suburban scene - yeah, you can build all the houses you want, but Nature just keeps on keepin' on and doesn't really give a crap that you think you've "tamed" Her with housing developments.
I'm sorry,I'm sorry, I'm sorry, but
"His photos look like their from movies."
AAArrrgh! (banging head on keyboard.)
The grammarian
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