Gregory Crewdson
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Born | Brooklyn, New York | September 26, 1962
Education | Brooklyn Friends; John Dewey High School; SUNY Purchase, BA, 1985; Yale University, MFA, 1988 |
Occupation(s) | Fine-art photographer, professor |
Employer | Yale University School of Art |
Awards | Skowhegan Medal for Photography, National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship |
Website | www |
Gregory Crewdson (born September 26, 1962) is an American photographer[1] 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.[2]
Early life and education
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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 the Speedies.[3] Their song, "Let Me Take Your Foto" was in 2005 used by Hewlett-Packard in advertisements to promote its digital cameras.[4]
Crewdson attended Purchase College, State University of New York, where he initially planned to study psychology.[5] At Purchase, he enrolled in a photography course taught by Laurie Simmons[6] and also studied with Jan Groover.[7] He received an MFA in photography from the Yale School of Art.[8]
Life and work
[edit]Crewdson is a professor and the director of graduate studies in photography at Yale School of Art.[9]
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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.[10] 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.[11] He has worked with the same director of photography, Richard Sands, along with other core team members, for some 25 years.[12] He works much like a director with a budget similar to that of a movie production,[13] each image involves dozens of people and weeks to months of planning.[14]
Using shots that resemble film productions, Crewdson deconstructs American suburban life in his work.[15] 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,[16] as well as the painter Edward Hopper[17] and photographer Diane Arbus.[18]
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),[19] 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.[20] Nearly all of his other work before and since was made in the small towns and cities in Western Massachusetts.[21]
In 2012, he was the subject of the feature documentary film Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters.[22] 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 life
[edit]Crewdson lives primarily in western Massachusetts in a former Methodist church.[23] His long time partner, Juliane Hiam,[24] is a writer and producer[25] and the two work closely together.[26] Hiam has also appeared as a subject in numerous of Crewdson's pictures.[27][28] Crewdson has two children, Lily and Walker, from a previous marriage.[29] Crewdson is an open-water swimmer[30] and has said that the meditative state he achieves with his daily swimming practice is fundamental to his creative process as an artist.[31]
Publications
[edit]- Hover. Artspace Books, 1995. ISBN 1891273000.
- Twilight: Photographs by Gregory Crewdson. Harry N. Abrams, 2002. ISBN 0810910039. With an essay by Rick Moody.
- Gregory Crewdson: 1985–2005. Hatje Cantz, 2005. ISBN 377571622X.
- Fireflies. Skarstedt Fine Art, 2007. ISBN 0970909055.
- Beneath the Roses. With Russell Banks. Harry N. Abrams, 2008. ISBN 978-0810993808.
- Dream House. With text by Tilda Swinton. John Rule, 2009. ISBN 978-8888359410.
- Sanctuary. With Anthony O. Scott. Hatje Cantz, 2010. ISBN 978-3775727341.
- In a Lonely Place. Hatje Cantz, 2011. ISBN 978-3775731362.
- Gregory Crewdson. New York: Rizzoli, 2013. ISBN 978-0847840915.
- Cathedral of the Pines. New York: Aperture, 2016. ISBN 978-1-597113-50-2. With a text by Alexander Nemerov.
- An Eclipse of Moths. New York: Aperture, 2020. ISBN 978-1683952213. With an introduction by Jeff Tweedy.
- Alone Street. New York: Aperture, 2021. ISBN 978-1597115131. With an essay by Joyce Carol Oates and an interview with the artist by Cate Blanchett.
- Gregory Crewdson: Eveningside, 2012–2022. Milan: Skira Editore, 2022. ISBN 8857248429. Text by Jean-Charles Vergne.
- Gregory Crewdson. Munich, London, New York: Prestel, 2024. ISBN 9783791391243. Edited by Walter Moser, with texts by David Fincher, Daniela Hammer-Tugendhat, Beate Hofstadler, Astrid Mahler, Watler, Moser, Matthieu Orléan, and Emily St. John Mandel.
Solo exhibitions
[edit]- Gregory Crewdson: Photographs, White Cube Gallery, London, 1995[32]
- Gregory Crewdson: Hover, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, NY, 1997[33]
- Gregory Crewdson. House Taken Over, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, 1998; and traveled to Salamanca, 1999[34]
- Gregory Crewdson: Twilight, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, 2002;[35] White Cube, London, 2002;[36] Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, 2002[37]
- Gregory Crewdson: Beneath the Roses, Luhring-Augustine Gallery, New York, 2005;[38] White Cube, London, 2005;[39] Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, 2005 (all three concurrently)[40]
- Gregory Crewdson: 1985–2005, Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany;[41] and traveled to Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Germany, 2006;[42] Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; and Landsgalerie Linz, Austria, 2006[43]
- Gregory Crewdson: Fireflies, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, NY, 2006[44]
- Gregory Crewdson: Beneath the Roses Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, 2008;[45] Gregory Crewdson, White Cube, London, 2008;[46] Gregory Crewdson, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, 2008[47]
- Gregory Crewdson: In a Lonely Place, traveling show, C/O Berlin, Berlin, 2011; Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sweden, 2011;[48] Copenhagen, Denmark, 2011/2012;[49][50] Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Australia, 2012;[51] Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia, 2013;[52] City Gallery Wellington; and Dunedin Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2013[53]
- Gregory Crewdson: Fireflies, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, 2014;[54] SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, 2015;[55] Berkshire Botanical Garden, Leonhardt Galleries, Stockbridge, MA, 2021[56]
- Gregory Crewdson: Sanctuary, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY. 2010;[57] Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy, 2011;[58] TIFF '11 Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2011[59] La Fábrica Gallery, Madrid, Spain[60]
- Gregory Crewdson: Dream House, The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA, 2015[61]
- Cathedral of the Pines, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 2016;[62] Galerie Templon, Brussels and Paris concurrently, September–October 2016;[63] The Photographers' Gallery, London, 2017;[64] Centre of Contemporary Art, Toruń, Poland, November 2017 – January 2018[65]
- Gregory Crewdson: Sanctuary, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt, Germany, April–July 2017[66]
- The Becket Pictures, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2017[67]
- Gregory Crewdson: Eveningside (a survey of work from 2012 to 2022), Gallerie d'Italia, Turin, Italy, October 2022 – January 2023,[68] exhibition traveled to the LUMA Foundation at Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, July–September 2023,[69] and VB Photography Center, Kuopio, Finland, June 12-Sept. 15 2024[70]
- Gregory Crewdson: Forest Fables, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, September–October 2023[71]
- Gregory Crewdson: Eveningside, Reflex Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Mar 11-May 6, 2023,[72] Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago, Apr 7-Aug 11 2023,[73] Templon, Paris, France, Nov. 8-Dec. 23 2023[74]
- Gregory Crewdson: Retrospektive, The Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria, May 29-Sept 8 2024[75]
Awards
[edit]- Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer's Fellowship[76]
- Skowhegan Medal for Photography, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME.[77]
- Skowhegan Medal for Photography[78]
- National Endowment for the Arts fellowship[79]
- Honorary Doctorate, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly, MA.[80]
- Honorary Doctorate, SUNY Purchase, NY.[81]
- Distinguished Artist Award, St. Botolph Club Foundation, Boston, MA.[82]
Collections
[edit]Crewdson's work is held in the permanent collections of major institutions worldwide, including:
- Albertina Museum, Vienna[83]
- The Broad, Los Angeles[84]
- The Getty Museum, Los Angeles[85]
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles[86]
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York[87]
- Museum of Modern Art, New York[88]
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco[89]
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum[90]
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London[91]
- Whitney Museum, New York[92]
- Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven[93]
Films about Crewdson
[edit]- Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters (2012) – feature documentary directed, produced, and shot by Ben Shapiro[94]
- There But Not There (2017) – short documentary about Crewdson's casting process, directed by Juliane Hiam[95]
- Making Eveningside (2022) – short interpretive documentary directed by Harper Glantz, set to original music by Stuart Bogie and James Murphy (electronic musician) about the making of Eveningside
References
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