Thursday 8 February 2007

SMS 'Stop Motion Studies'

- David Crawford -

“Crawford’s pieces combine the strange homogeneity of public spaces pictured by Andreas Gursky, the complex cinematic ambiguity of Jeff Wall’s photos, and even the lovely light and titillating urban voyeurism of the Impressionists.”
—Bert Stabler, Chicago Reader



Stop Motion Studies - Tokyo, 2004

- Crawford seems to have taken a selection of photo stills (stop frames) and strung them together to create a moving image. A lot of his images were taken on trains and subway tubes, this gives Crawford both a static and moving object in each photo.this means in every shot the people don’t move that much but as the train is moving the background changes constantly.