Gregory Crewdson's Photo Analysis 2

A photo of a man alone in the woods in a hole.

This is another photo by Gregory Crewdson. This photo is of a man, alone in the forest and night time. Why is he there? Why the hole? This photo also becomes enigmatic when you start to think about these things.

The lighting in this photo is more like twilight shining down, there is also more light towards the back of the photo. The light suggests mystery.

The man looks focused on opening what looks like a briefcase after briefcase or boxes that he looks like he has dug up. The man is also wearing a shirt but the buttons are not done up, it doesn't look liked he planned this at all. The car on the left shows that he was desperate to get there because there is a bit of trunk knocked down. The trees around the man shows that he is deep into the woods

The camera angle looking down at the man but not by a sharp angle, just a slight down angle, it's as if someone is looking at what he is doing. This also adds more mystery to this photo because we cannot see what this man is looking at or looking for. This again creates enigma.

This denotation of this photo is a man, alone in the woods opening cases but when looking properly at the photo and finding the implied meaning, the connotation of this photo shows a desperate man who has driven his car into the heart of the woods to find something which he had to dig for.