Scary Women

collage of Gregory Crewdsons photographs and Hollywood portrait photography

I feel that the combination on imagery demonstrates a strong narrative. There is a darker more sinister undercurrent to these images. Although the female model/actress is beautiful and presents perfected the film noir-esk lighting translates a different story and motive. Crewdsons photographs are also very obviously staged, in contrast his images project a bizarre and damaged representation of the urban American dream. I feel that these images evoke a sense of beauty and melancholy and at the same time we are reminded of our own mortality. These images capture the protagonist of a melodrama and we are very aware of a mood brewing.