photographic fiction: photograph discussion

Photograph by Gregory Crewdson

This photograph by Gregory Crewdson interests me as it takes an image that we are now so accustomed to - the quintessential American home - and turns it into an image that is quite upsetting and not right. To me it shows how what we are lead to believe through media such as television, movies and advertising, isn't quite the reality. That these perfect welcoming homes are not that. It also reveals that it is all set up, accomplished by the framed and symmetrical layout of the image that is really unnatural. This shows me that the bright and colourful worlds of advertising are actually surrounded by the dark world of consumerism, depicted through the lighting choice of this image.