Gregory Crewdson

Josefina Ayerza

JA: ...I can imagine the thrill of a small boy listening to grown-up stories without the filter typically used in the presence of a child. He probably did not understand all the child’s references are limited. But in time, like with the Wolfman, the child may work images and words out, and arrive at conclusions he wasn’t able to decode when he originally heard them. The scene of the child spying through a hole in the floor has the structure of perversion. He’s the voyeur, now the father is an exhibitionist. What I can trace in the artist’s photography is the exposure of intimacy—anger, sadness, nudity, drama at the point of conflict. The artist is the exhibitionist and we are the voyeurs.[...] 

More Crewdson images here, here and here.