"Photographs can’t, or at least rarely tell a story. There is no beginning, middle and end, there is simply the moment. You can’t tell a story in one single instant. Unlike narrative art, like literature and movies, a photo can’t tell a story by itself; it’s like tearing a single sentence, page or chapter from a larger novel or short story, but even that metaphor is weak, because even a sentence can show a progression in time or character, but a photo is forever a single moment — there’s no past, present and future, there is only the present. You can begin to tell a story by assembling a sequence of pictures, or combining them with text, but Crewdson does neither. The pictures in Beneath the Roses are united by theme rather than by story. Instead, Crewdson uses the photographic medium’s great deficit, which is also its strength, namely that it captures a single moment precisely, rather than a sequence of moments approximately. Crewdson’s pictures don’t tell a story, they evoke a story, and likely a different one in each viewer."
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