“My pictures are about a search for a moment, a perfect moment.”
Making the perfect moment
American photographer Gregory Crewdson can take months, years, to find the moment he's looking for. "The pictures are about creating a world," says Crewdson in the acclaimed documentary Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters. "I've always had images inside my head that I feel like I want to get out in the world." Crewdson starts his projects by location scouting, driving the streets of small-town Massachusetts, often visiting the same spots again and again. At this stage he doesn’t take a camera. Instead, he wants to get a real sense of the place – uninhibited by the lens. Once a location is set,...
Bio
Gregory Crewdson (he/him) was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1962. He now lives between New York and Massachusetts.
Yale School of Art
Crewdson has been teaching for over 25 years, and considers this an integral part of his creative practice. In 1988 he completed an MFA at Yale. Now, he’s the Director of Graduate Studies in Photography.
Did you know?
Before Crewdson was a photographer he was a musician, part of New York pop band The Speedies.
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interviewGregory Crewdson – Returning to ‘Dream House’
Twenty-five years after ‘Dream House’, Gregory Crewdson revisits the series that invited some of cinema's most recognisable faces into his artfully constructed world.
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Gregory Crewdson
American photographer Gregory Crewdson is renowned for his gorgeously cinematic pictures of small-town America. With epic sets, lights, props and actors, Gregory and his team create dramatic moments from ordinary life.
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Gregory Crewdson – 25 years of Twilight
On the 25th anniversary of landmark series Twilight, revisit Gregory Crewdson's supernatural vision of suburbia and collect a trio of limited edition photographic prints.
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