There are other artists who work in similar ways to Crewdson or who have the same views and ideas. Crewdson did a show with eight other artists in October 2006 called Twilight: Photography in the Magic Hour.
Philip-Lorca diCorcia is a photographer who participated in this show. His work combines a documentary tradition with the fiction that is advertising and cinema. He creates a link between reality and desire.
"It might be said that twilight is a muddled form of clarity. The warm glow that suffuses the ' golden hour' in Los Angeles acts to filter the grim realities, the outright lies, the self-deceptions, which allow Hollywood, and by extension, America to flourish. 'Twilight' provides the rose-coloured glasses that make it possible to see out but not see in.' "
Philip-Lorca diCorcia
http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/twilight/diCorcia/index.html
diCorcia also uses artificial light to carefully stage his photographs. He finds random people on the street and pays them to pose in his photographs. In the photograph above he has used Brent Booth, a 21 year old from Des Moines, Iowa. He paid him $30. He puts all this information in the title of the photograph. Ifind it interesting that whilst he stages the pictures the work is also has that element of truth in it as he is using random people and not a model that has been carefully selected.
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