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Gregory Crewdson

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Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox person Gregory Crewdson (born September 26, 1962) is an American photographer<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref> who makes large-scale, cinematic, psychologically charged prints of staged scenes set in suburban landscapes and interiors. He directs a large production and lighting crew to construct his images.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Early life and educationEdit

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Crewdson in 2007

Crewdson was born in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. As a child, he attended Brooklyn Friends School, and then John Dewey High School.

As a teenager, he was part of a power pop group called Speedies.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Their song "Let Me Take Your Photo" was used in 2005 by Hewlett-Packard in advertisements to promote its digital cameras.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Crewdson attended Purchase College, State University of New York, where he initially planned to study psychology.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> At Purchase, he enrolled in a photography course taught by Laurie Simmons<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and also studied with Jan Groover.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He received an MFA in photography from the Yale School of Art.<ref>Gregory Crewdson Biography. Rogallery.com. Retrieved November 17, 2011.</ref>

Life and workEdit

Crewdson is a professor and the director of graduate studies in photography at Yale School of Art.<ref>Yale University School of Art: Gregory Crewdson. Art.yale.edu. Retrieved November 17, 2011.</ref>

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Untitled photo from Crewdson's series Beneath the Roses (2003–2008)

Crewdson's photographs are elaborately planned, produced, and lit using crews familiar with motion picture production who light large scenes using cinema production equipment and techniques.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He works with a lighting team, art director, make-up and wardrobe department, props and effects to create mood, atmosphere, and open-ended narrative images.<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He has worked with the same director of photography, Richard Sands, along with other core team members, for some 25 years.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He works much like a director with a budget similar to that of a movie production,<ref name=":0" /> each image involves dozens of people and weeks to months of planning.<ref name=":1" />

Using shots that resemble film productions, Crewdson deconstructs American suburban life in his work.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> He has cited the films Vertigo, The Night of the Hunter, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blue Velvet, and Safe as having influenced his style,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> as well as the painter Edward Hopper<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and photographer Diane Arbus.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Crewdson's most widely-known bodies of work include Twilight (1998–2002), Beneath the Roses (2003–2008), Cathedral of the Pines (2013–2014), An Eclipse of Moths (2018–2019),<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Eveningside (2021–2022). Crewdson's only body of work made outside of the U.S. was Sanctuary (2009), set at the abandoned Cinecittá studios outside of Rome.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Nearly all of his other work before and since was made in the small towns and cities in Western Massachusetts.<ref name=":2">Template:Cite news</ref>

In 2012, he was the subject of the feature documentary film Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The film series followed the construction of and an explanation by Crewdson of his thought process and vision for pieces of Beneath the Roses.

Personal lifeEdit

As of 2020, Crewdson lives primarily in western Massachusetts in a former Methodist church.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> His long time partner, Juliane Hiam,<ref name=":2" /> is a writer and producer<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and the two work closely together.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Hiam has also appeared as a subject in numerous of Crewdson's pictures.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Crewdson has two children from a previous marriage.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Crewdson is an open-water swimmer<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and has said that the meditative state he achieves with his daily swimming practice is fundamental to his creative process as an artist.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

PublicationsEdit

AwardsEdit

  • Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer's Fellowship<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Skowhegan Medal for Photography, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Honorary Doctorate, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Honorary Doctorate, SUNY Purchase, NY.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • Distinguished Artist Award, St. Botolph Club Foundation, Boston, MA.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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CollectionsEdit

Crewdson's work is held in the permanent collections of major institutions worldwide, including:

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Films about CrewdsonEdit

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  • There But Not There (2017) – short documentary about Crewdson's casting process, directed by Juliane Hiam<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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