The two images above in particular have Vermeer like qualities. The light is being directed from left to right, illuminating something, much like the light from the window in the paintings. The images themselves have an almost paint like quality to them in the way that they look so surreal.
What i'm most interested in however, is the way that the images show a sublime moment in time, which is illuminated by the constructed light source. They are so fascinating and beautiful in the way they appear, and within them there is so much happening, so much detail and narrative. This is a quality that I want to experiment with my photographs, and try to contstruct a scene, right down to the last detail, which depicts a dramatic and open ended narrative scene, by use of composition and objects within the frame.
This is what the work of Crewdson acheives, but still maintains the illuminating light of Vermeer's paintings.
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