Gregory Crewdson is a photographer/ visual artist who is well known for creating very surreal and dramatic dreamlike images of suburban America. Crewdson studied photography at SUNY Purchase in the 80's. He received his M.F.A. from Yale and has taught at Sarah Lawrence, Cooper Union, Vassar College, and currently at Yale. Crewdson has had several publications and exhibitions. He has shown work at the BlumHelman Warehouse in New York, the Feigen Gallery in Illinois, and even the Galleri Charlotte Lund in Sweden.
I picked Gregory Crewdson in my work this week, because I feel he truly captures the cinematic feel that I would like aesthetically in my work. He also creates these narratives within his imagery that are incredibly surreal though only use every day items. These are all elements that I strive for in my images, but am struggling to create. I find great inspiration in Crewdsons work and use of lighting, color, and substance. So far I feel that Crewdson's work is aesthetically and conceptually closest to what I want to portray in my study this semester.
"I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood. I never literally made miniature trains, tableaus, or anything. But there is something very childlike in the process"
Lopez, Antonio. Site Santa Fe. 2001. Web.
"Gregory Crewdson doesn't so much take pictures as make them. Some critics say the photographer and artist is reinventing the genre by using film techniques to stage pictures. Crewdson's carefully constructed tableaus generate more questions than answers,"
NPR. "Gregory Crewdson's Photo Alchemy". 2006. Web.
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