Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer who is best known for elaborately staged, surreal scenes of American homes and neighborhoods. Gregory Crewdson works within a photographic tradition that combines the documentary style of William Eggleston and Walker Evans with the dream-like vision of filmmakers such as Stephen Spielberg and David Lynch. Crewdson’s method is equally filmic, building elaborate sets to take pictures of extraordinary detail and narrative portraits. Recent series include Twilight and Beneath the Roses, everyday scenes with charged, surreal moods that hint at the longings and malaise of suburban America. These pictures are like incomplete sentences, with little reference to prior events or what may follow. The artist has referred the 'limitations of a photograph in terms of narrative capacity to have an image that is frozen in time, (where) there's no before or after' and has turned that restriction into a unique strength.
The feeling of isolation throughout Gregory Crewdson’s images is very apparent. In his mystical images, you are able to sense the loneliness of his subjects. I am not sure if it is because of the subjects that are incredibly secluded or the way the images are portrayed that give off this feeling but it is something that I hope to hold in my images as well.
Website:
http://www.luhringaugustine.com/index.php?mode=artists&object_id=66
Gallery:
http://www.gagosian.com/artists/gregory-crewdson/exhibitions/
http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_works_172_0.html
Interview:
http://www.sitesantafe.org/exhibitions/virtualgalleries/frcrwan/crewdsonqa.html
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