Photography Artist - Thomas Demand, Gregory Crewdson

Thomas Demand is a German photographer. Thomas Demand is known for making photographs of three-dimensional models that look like real images of rooms and other spaces. The subjects represented in Demand’s photographs often relate to scenes of cultural or political relevance. Because he is working from models, the absence of people in his photographs is conspicuous and thematic. - wikipedia

I think images look lonely and I like them. They look like staged sets and are carefully contrived to portray exactly what is in the image. I like how clean the models look, they look real but still somehow fake. Its fun to look at.

Gregory Crewdson is a leading practitioner in the use of constructed models and staged events in photographic art, which blurs the distinction between reality and fiction. Focusing frequently on the American suburban landscape, his carefully composed and dramatically lit photographs present strangely disquieting views of everyday life that one critic has described as being like a “demented Norman Rockwell.” Crewdson describes himself as an American realist and has said: “I’ve always been interested in the uncanny, in looking into ordinary situations and finding something fantastical or mysterious. I’ve always been interested in domesticity; I’ve always been interested in photographic beauty; and I’ve always been interested in a kind of realism.” - Albright-Knox


Oh my gosh! His images are SUPER cool. They all require a ton of set up, but the image in the end is amazing. They all have a slight creepy edge to them, they feel like time has stopped. Something is always just not quite right in the images, but the people in them don't seem to notice or care. I LOVE IT.