Cindy Sherman and Gregory Crewdson both build sets to make their photographs. Given that the sets are artifi cial, and to an extent their subject matter is ar ti fi cial, can their work be said to be...

Cindy Sherman and Gregory Crewdson both build sets to make their photographs. Given that the sets are artifi cial, and to an extent their subject matter is ar ti fi cial, can their work be said to be truly representational? What distinguishes their work from, say, the work of Ansel Adams or other Documentarists?