Analysis On Daniel Crooks

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This photography is an innovative video work of Daniel crooks, which it used multiple slices of moving an image to create a movement of people cross paths and overlap the road. I can clearly see that this video has been taken in somewhere in China, as the Chinese labels are very obvious. It is noticeable that there were a number of people walking across the road path. In addition, it seems very crowded in this picture, which it provides me with an understanding of Chinese’s cultural and their daily lives. In this photo, Crooks stretches the real time of the video to draw an attention of the viewer into a digital collage. He used an unfamiliar landscape – China’s city to create a new way of seeing an urban landscape.

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