Stepping back, people using the photographic space

A lot of photographers fill their entire frame with just a persons face or eyes and tell us the eyes says everything about the person. This is wrong. The eyes tell us NOTHING about the person. Charles Manson has beautiful eyes, Osama Bin Laden has huge puppy eyes, ever noticed that? Does that tell you something about him? No, he's the leader of a huge terrorist network.

Photographers who are often inspired by painters from the 1700's are often have a tendency to take those extra five steps away from their subjects, without losing any of the intimacy with them. Most famously is perhaps David Lachapelle, who with the exception of maybe two of his images always show the entire person and in most cases several people in one shot to make it what it is.
Today we'd like to bring you two other artists who work in a somewhat similar fashion. Jeff Wall and Gregory Crewdson.

First up is Gregory Crewdson:





And secondly Jeff Wall:




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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Wall
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Crewdson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_lachapelle