I work with intention, so I've been saying for a long time that I make photographs. Even though I work on the street, it is reality that interests me. I would not, and could not, imagine the photographs that I make before I make them. What I get from the world around me is much richer than anything I could construct.
I work with intention, so I've been saying for a long time that I make photographs. Even though I work on the street, it is reality that interests me. I would not, and could not, imagine the photographs that I make before I make them. What I get from the world around me is much richer than anything I could construct.
The comparison between Sternfeld and Crewdson is an interesting one. They both make photos, but with different intentions. Sternfeld is more more familiar to me. As where Crewdson, and Jeff Wall, are more like painters in that they construct a fictional space based on idea in their head. I actually think Crewdson is more like, and influenced by, Edward Hopper on a visual level, and Diane Arbus for her ability to disturb.
To my eye, Crewdson and Wall operate in the "uncanny valley" that exists between reality and fiction, looking too perfect to be real. But yet, there is always a cognitive dissonance between what we are seeing and what we know reality looks like. They make you think that what you're looking at is familiar, but yet it seems so alien.
Sternfeld give us the humans, but Crewdson gives us a very lifelike android experience. They are both really interesting, and completely different. I like both and find their ability to provoke and prod the viewer to look deeper, absolutely fascinating.
I work with intention, so I've been saying for a long time that I make photographs. Even though I work on the street, it is reality that interests me. I would not, and could not, imagine the photographs that I make before I make them. What I get from the world around me is much richer than anything I could construct.
The comparison between Sternfeld and Crewdson is an interesting one. They both make photos, but with different intentions. Sternfeld is more more familiar to me. As where Crewdson, and Jeff Wall, are more like painters in that they construct a fictional space based on idea in their head. I actually think Crewdson is more like, and influenced by, Edward Hopper on a visual level, and Diane Arbus for her ability to disturb.
To my eye, Crewdson and Wall operate in the "uncanny valley" that exists between reality and fiction, looking too perfect to be real. But yet, there is always a cognitive dissonance between what we are seeing and what we know reality looks like. They make you think that what you're looking at is familiar, but yet it seems so alien.
Sternfeld give us the humans, but Crewdson gives us a very lifelike android experience. They are both really interesting, and completely different. I like both and find their ability to provoke and prod the viewer to look deeper, absolutely fascinating.