For my staged photography assignment I am looking into the matters of my own family life. Staged photography can be especially great for taking photographs of stories. I think the famous photographer Gregory Crewdson does a great job with capturing photographs of this nature.
He really encaptures pure emotion into his portraits, he knows exactly what he wants to portray in his photographs and how he sets it up is critical, the angle of the youngest woman in this sitting on the chair is key because she is almost like the freedom of this family that everyone seems to want and is almost envious of her even though she is their daughter and wants her to be careful or whatever it may be that they're upset about her for she's still young and full of wonder and curiousness, to experience things she's never felt before or gone outside of her zone to do, and they're all looking at her as if she was the person they wish to be now.
This is just some simple lady sitting in a bed of flowers, but the fact that she's in a home and shes a woman and she's sweating it portrays the life and heart of a domesticated women someone who's willing to escape this life she has. She's beautiful in the fact that she's a human being a hard working woman we usually underestimate the hard work and labor it takes for a wife or woman to stay and do house work. Now days we split the housework between men women and children, yet there are cases when the woman is expected to do housework and considered even normal which is how it has been for the past 50 years in an Americanized lifestyle. We tend to forget that these women have dreams too and jobs other than housework nowdays however, they are still expected to take full responsibility of taking care of the house while working full time jobs. Whereas a husband may only be expected to work and come home to his wife who does everything else.
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