aperture themes

Aperture concepts

Immediate family by Sally Mann

Brian on the Bowery roof, New York City 1982

Nan Goldin

Brian with Flintstones, New York 1981

Nan Goldin – documenting her ‘tribe’

Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdon People in Crewdson's work avoid eye contact, but seethe misery, jealousy, anger or plain old confoundedness. They stand in the rain transfixed, or wander aimlessly or get up to no good in the woods at night. They have horrible times at home and in hotel rooms. You don't need a second glimpse to tell that this is small-town America, whose dark side has become a cinematic and literary cliche.

One wonders, though, if there is any other side but dark to the American psyche. It isn't surprising that everyone in Crewdson's images is somehow lost, bereft, misplaced, tormented. We are already so familiar with this territory that one can't even look at an old man crossing the street to the Oasis liquor store without wondering what terrible troubles he's going to drown in a quart of Jim Beam; or if that woman we glimpse through the lighted door of the Thrifty Bundle laundry is planning her seventh divorce, or just a murder.

Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2005/apr/19/photography

Student example – inspiration from Crewdson’s work

Rineke Djikstra

• Beach series

Youthful Bliss by Andric

Jonathan Worth

Lee Freidlander

Nadav Kander – Chernobyl, Half Life

Miranda Hutton – the rooms project

Zwelethu Mthethwa

The Miracle of Death, 2000 by Breda Beban

Beban’s husband, Hrovje Horvatic died in 1997, which caused Beban to produce a series of images (other images shown to the left) using the box that contained her husband’s ashes. She photographed this box in the different rooms of their home, which still held her husbands possessions.

Yassine Hakimi

Bernice Abbott

Sam Taylor Wood

Sam Taylor Wood