Ryan Schude and Gregory Crewdson seem to be the masters of tableau photography. The book has 102 photos and most are carefully choreographed situations with people frozen in motion. There are some portraits and eighteen shots with individuals and cars at the back of the book.
Schude, like Cewdson create amazing photographic dramas that pull the eyes into the image and you scan every part of it hoping to capture and maybe interpret correctly just what is going on but I think only Schude really knows. I haven't a clue about some of these images but I love the sheer nerve of the photographer in attempting (and succeeding) to capture lots of folk collectively doing everyday things at the same time for the camera. The front cover is a good example of this, it's called Phoot camp.
One of the nice things about looking at these photos is that repeat viewing throws up something you hadn't noticed before, usually an object, maybe partially obscured and away from the main focal point of the image. The back pages have thumbnails of all the photos with a title, date and location, the titles are mostly one word and don't offer any insight about the content.
The book is a handsome production, printed in Italy by Damiani with a three hundred screen on a silky matt art paper and it can be picked up quite cheaply, too.
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