Examples of Film Still Illustrations

Gregory Crewdson's art is very dark and ominous. I found it interesting though the detail that he displays in his photographs. They're very real. He takes pictures of time in between events. It looks like this one he is capturing a moment right before a women commits suicide. She bears her despair on her face and her body language. This is the crucial moment where the woman decides to do it. To take the ultimate step to end her life.




Jeff Wall takes photos of many industrial type sites. Judging by his photographs, he likes to mix organic textures with artificial structures or objects. He also takes very mild photos. They are all very simple and there is no obvious story. Some of them lack drama. Although i did like this photograph. It makes you wonder what series of events had occurred to create this mess.






I enjoyed Teun Hocks's work a lot. His photographs are very humorous and cartoon-like, which is similar to the kind of art work I create. He creates situations that, as impossible as they are, are very real life problems that we all have experienced and are able to laugh at in these photos.









Cindy Sherman photographs herself in all of her photos. She dresses herself up in different outfits and creates different personas of herself. I think she does it, because she enjoys recreating different alter egos and being a completely different person for a moment. Her photographs are very close-cropped and basically only show her figure, and small peices of her surroundings. I find her work very interesting, but they have that uncomfortable feel to them that makes a viewer squirm a little.