Gregory Crewdon

Gregory Crewdon

Born: September 6, 1962
(aged 52)

Gregory was born in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York. He attended John Dewey High school and graduated early. In the mid 80's Gregory studied photography at SUNY Purchase, near port Chester, New York. He later received a master of fine arts from Yale university, not only this in 2012 he became a professor at Yale university school of art.






Day 318: Untitled, from Beneath the Roses

Analysis
You see a homeless man in the middle of a street walking down the street with a trolley filled with stuff. standard wooden houses lining the street and at the end the last house has a hole in it. The sun is setting in the background. The ground is wet as if it has been raining recently.


Meaning
The homeless man is walking in the middle of the street because he might think it is easier to push on the road, the trolley is loaded with old stuff that is outdated technology suggesting he has been homeless for many years. The house being destroyed at the end of the street maybe because it is old and needs to be replaced. The tracks in dirt in front of the homeless man suggests that vehicles have been going through that area several times before the photograph was taken.   

Untitled 'Beneath the Roses' 2004

Analysis
It is a abandoned street with a car in the middle of a cross road and the it has stopped in the middle of the road. All of the traffic lights are orange or red. There is a thick mist that is rolling in, in the background. Streaks of water or ice on the road close to the camera, old buildings line each side of the street.
Meaning
The car has stopped in the centre of the road because the passenger probably is feed up with the driver and wants to get out of the car bearing mind that they are stopped in the middle of a intersection, The old building suggest that this town doesn't like to change/update there buildings to make the look more modern, but it adds a time zone for the picture late 80's early 90's. The fog means that it gets quit cold there and the fog is slowly rolling in as the sun sets on the left of the photograph. Streak of water are there because the road has cracks in the road causing water to build up in those cracks that would get larger and large allowing more water to sit in those cracks/holes.

Untitled from the series 'Beneath the Roses', 2004

Analysis
There is a supermarket in the middle right of the picture. There is 90's cars dotted around the car park for the supermarket. The station wagon that is closest to the camera has its doors open and there is a women with a shopping trolley standing at the back of the car. Towards the back there is a man with a trolley heading towards the back of the car park.

Meaning
The empty car park means that it is late and people are probably at home around this time, meaning the shop is going to close shortly maybe. The women with the trolley must of finished her shopping and is beginning to put it away in her station wagon. That is why the doors a probably open. The man walking towards the back of the car park, he could be either walking towards the blue van or he could live in a nearby house and is heading to one of those houses close.  

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