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tion as practiced in the lives of loveless wives and frustrated husbands of Park
Slope, interpretation
everyday lite, these colliding with, the raw material of the LPs on the JVC
turntable. Crewdson has remarked that he was never interested in documentary photos at all, even in his student days, and it's not hard to imagine that this
indeed is the case, at least considered in this warm first light of day. He came
late to the form, he was well into his college education, so that the debate on
what exactly a photograph was, on whether it was doomed to re-create the
actual or, on the other hand, whether it was open to the extenuations that Cindy
Sherman or Barbara Kruger brought to the medium, this was all settled. It was
settled tor Gregory Crewdson
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of overhearing
neighbors had already made the actual magical, made the space of the urban
and suburban into an unearthly and terrifying arena of possibility.
Which may be why Crewdson prefers Freud's essay on the uncanny to
The Interpretation of Dreams. Wherein the master remarks that the uncanny is
something which ought to have remained hidden but has come to light. The
sessions in Crewdson's father's practice ought to have remained private, but
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in my writing
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undoing
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After which she pulled up her shirt to display the raw, red wound for a\1to see. There was
was said,
which
a sniper tower
at SUNY Purchase,
1992),
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students
students,
by means of architecture,
created
such fertile
and faculty.
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imaginings.
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an urban disorder,
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such
of the
some resemblance
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why
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Yet if Crewdson's
explosions,
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and displacement,
Crewdson
of pollution,
and forty-five
1996-97.
especially
in the work of
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decay, etc.
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of western
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and so forth.
minutes
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images-especially
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of political lore
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could threaten,
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only matters if the student body of SUNY Purchase believed it to be true, if the commingling
things.
there myself, about a decade after Crewdson was there, and itwas one of the happiest teaching experiences
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once lived not far from here and looked at many at these
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lovers of
two warring tribes jumped to their doom after a union was opposed, after which
the tribes flung down things from the mountain top in order to memorialize
doomed lovers; either it's a true story, or it's a story I'm simulating,
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which to journey, since the Titans designated him for this assignment, and thus
he shall do until the ozone-free
fluorescences
electrons and other subatornics. dusk comes in waves, like the tides, dusk is
the separation of all into spectral wavelengths, it is nature at its most artificial,
ambient light at its most perfect, such that film directors have always favored
it with their attentions, waited for it, waited for the magic hour, but also because
the poetry of retrospection always adheres to dusk, to the gloaming, to the time
when night becomes a thing to be survived, so that a woman floating over a
lawn covered with trash-that
the purifying
of bassoons.)-feels
lyrical, even poeticized, Or a cluster of pheasant and other game birds around
mounds of bread seems natural, like the proper eruption of the dream world in
up through the
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and you can observe for yourself that Boyle is saying nothing
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twilight
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by extension,
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twilight,
an
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volunteer is in place, the cloth is removed, and the audience is presented with
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lI\lht of twilight,
civilizations