Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer. His photographs feature elaborately staged, surreal scenes of small town and suburban American life. Crewdson was born in Park Slope, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. As a child, he spent a long time in a cottage, which is in the suburb of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Many of his earlier works were set in there. During his teenage years, Crewdson was a member of punk band The Speedies. Their hit song, Let Me Take Your Photo, was used in a Hewllet Packard advertisement in 2005. His father was a psychoanalyst, who always working at home. As a teenager, he used to listen in through the floorboards to his father, when his father was working with his patients. As Crewdson told
From an early age the artist felt ostracized from nature and his only connection to wild life was through the natural museum of history and his uncle’s house, which was filled with taxidermy. His parents were divorced and his father suffered from alcoholism. His tough childhood forced Walton Ford to find humor in the challenging aspe...
Wright grew up in a poor family. His father worked in a glass factory and his mother did laundry. From a very young age he witnessed the struggle of working class people. Growing up in a poor and underprivileged neighborhood, Martins Ferry, Ohio, had a remarkable influence in his life and career as a writer. Most of his writing focuses marginalized groups within the society.
Stephen Crane was born shortly after the Civil War on November 1st 1871, in Nework New Jersey (Miller 285). The Crane family had fourteen children, Stephen Crane being the last (285). According to “ a short biography of Stephen Crane’s early years,” by the time Crane had reached the age of three he had already taught himself to read and right. At the age of four Crane had read James Fenimore Cooper’s novels. These novels had been past down by his brother, who had to sneak the novels into the strict Methodist household. According to Ray Miller, the Crane family moved to Port Jervis, New York in 1878, but two years later marked the death or Crane’s father. Crane’s mother then moved the family to Asbury Park, New Jersey where Stephen Crane began to excel in public schools (285). Crane’s first short story was not published until after his death, which was called “ Uncle Jake and the Bell Handler” written in 1885 (285). At this time Crane enrolled into Pennington Se...
Whether Cormier takes from his personal experiences, or things that have happened to his family, he always pulls inspiration from his life. Cormier was born and raised in Leominster, Massachusetts. As he got into writing, he had to find a point
He was born and raised in Modesto, California, the same state that Hollywood or Los angeles is in where most movies are made. He must have had some influence from the movies made there to get
Since the 70s his work has been showed in museum and art galleries all over the world and is a component of many accumulations.The photography style of Bruce Gilden is defined by the energetic/transmuting special way of verbalizing of his pictures, his special graphic qualities, and his pristine and direct manner of shooting the faces of passers-by with a flash. Gilden's potent images in ebony and white and now in color have brought the Magnum (person who takes pictures) ecumenical fame. Gilden has received many awards and grants for his work, including National Gifts of mazuma for the Arts (comities predicated on shared fascinates/learning opportunities) (1980, 1984 and 1992), French "Villa Medicis Hors les Murs" grant (1995), grants from the New York State Substratum for the Arts , a Japan Substructure Artist Learning opportunity (1999) and in 2013 a Guggenheim Substratum (comity predicated on shared intrigues/learning
Walt was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was raised on a farm near Marceline, Missouri. Walt became interested in drawing at a very young age and he he started selling his first sketches to neighbours when he was only seven years old. Walt attended the Academy of Fine Arts.On
Hawthorne was a famous author and got inspiration from his childhood. Hawthorne was born in Salem, Massachusetts in 1804, but was said to have a way with words at a
Crewdson’s distinctive style is that his works concentrates predominately on the use of narrative and the openness of the narrative to the viewers. Gregory Crewdson also works visually concentrate on the use of light, coulor and composition. Crewdson’s photograph, usually takes place in a small-town in America, in that small town that he choices are usually where he finds the people that will be in the photograph.
He got back from the war and decided to enroll at Lombard College. He worked his way up through college and caught the attention of one of his professors who in the future would pay for his publication of his first volume of poetry titled In Reckless Ecstasy. After he finished college, he decided to move to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He worked as a newspaper reporter and an advertising writer. He met
The word 'narrative' means a spoken or written account of connected events with a beginning, middle and an end, that can communicate an idea. In photography, narrative techniques can be made use of to build and develop a story, hold the attention of an audience, and enable them to relate to the narrative, similar to that of a painting. A story told through photographs can exist as a single or a series of images, and can be described as a 'fragment(s)' of time. Types of photographic narrative come in many forms, such as snapshots, mise-en-scene, tableau and time exposures. Focusing particularly on singular photographs, this discussion will talk about how photographers such as Gregory Crewdson and Cindy Sherman construct and stage narratives in their images in the cinematic theme, and how they originated. Photographic narrative does not necessarily follow the traditions of beginning, middle and end, but may simply imply what has happened, what is happening and what could happen next. They give an audience a thread to follow; giving them a fictional interpretation of a person, event, place or moment in time.
Hawthorne then moves to Lenox, Massachusetts where he became friends with Herman Melville who dedicated his popular Moby Dick to the new neighbor in 1851 (Hawthorne x). On May 20 of the same year, Hawthorne's second child, Rose, is born (lol I see what you did there Nate) (Hawthorne x). Another one of Hawthorne's famous works The House of the Seven Gables, is published a year after the release of The Scarlet Letter (Hawthorne x).
In the 1930s, author Stanley Kunitz moved from New York City to a farm called Wormwood Hill in the Connecticut countryside.
Robert Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco, California. He spent eleven years here until his father passed away. He then moved in with his mother and sister in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Later they moved in with his grandparents, and Frost started going to Lawrence High School. After he graduated in 1892, Frost attended Dartmouth University for a few months. He only ever returned home to work a couple of side jobs.
Jack London Author of a wicked woman. Grew up in the bay area was born in San Francisco California January 12, 1876. He quit school at 15 years old to become a full time employee at a salmon cannery. His first wife was his math tutor who he ended up having two children with. After reading this story I see Jack