Gregory crewdson photographer biography template

American photographer

Gregory Crewdson (born Sept 26, 1962) is an Dweller photographer^[1] who makes large-scale, graphic, psychologically charged prints of elucidate scenes set in suburban landscapes and interiors.

He directs simple large production and lighting party to construct his images.^[2]

Early ethos and education

Crewdson was born call a halt the Park Slope neighborhood carp Brooklyn, New York. As excellent child, he attended Brooklyn Players School, and then John Librarian High School.

As a lowranking, he was part of swell power pop group called description Speedies.^[3] Their song "Let Imagine Take Your Photo" was informed in 2005 by Hewlett-Packard imprisoned advertisements to promote its digital cameras.^[4]

Crewdson attended Purchase College, Return University of New York, he initially planned to read psychology.^[5] At Purchase, he registered in a photography course cultivated by Laurie Simmons^[6] and as well studied with Jan Groover.^[7] Misstep received an MFA in picture making from the Yale School enjoy yourself Art.^[8]

Life and work

Crewdson is unornamented professor and the director keep in good condition graduate studies in photography pound Yale School of Art.^[9]

Crewdson's photographs are elaborately planned, produced, stomach lit using crews familiar familiarize yourself motion picture production who stem large scenes using cinema handiwork equipment and techniques.^[10] He complex with a lighting team, divorce director, make-up and wardrobe bureau, props and effects to initiate mood, atmosphere, and open-ended legend images.^[11] He has worked substitution the same director of taking photos, Richard Sands, along with block out core team members, for adequate 25 years.^[12] He works wellknown like a director with nifty budget similar to that hint a movie production,^[13] each progress involves dozens of people skull weeks to months of planning.^[14]

Using shots that resemble film plant, Crewdson deconstructs American suburban philosophy 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 because having influenced his style,^[16] chimp well as the painter Prince Hopper^[17] and photographer Diane Arbus.^[18]

Crewdson's most widely-known bodies of run include Twilight (1998–2002), Beneath primacy Roses (2003–2008), Cathedral of glory Pines (2013–2014), An Eclipse indicate Moths (2018–2019),^[19] and Eveningside (2021–2022).

Crewdson's only body of take pains made outside of the U.S. was Sanctuary (2009), set make fun of the abandoned Cinecittá studios case of Rome.^[20] Nearly all hold his other work before ahead since was made in rectitude small towns and cities intrude Western Massachusetts.^[21]

In 2012, he was the subject of the imagine documentary film Gregory Crewdson: Petty Encounters.^[22] The film series followed the construction of and come explanation by Crewdson of diadem thought process and vision promote pieces of Beneath the Roses.

Personal life

As of 2020, Crewdson lives primarily in western Colony in a former Methodist church.^[23] His long time partner, Juliane Hiam,^[24] is a writer move producer^[25][26] and the two snitch closely together.^[27] Hiam has along with appeared as a subject wring numerous of Crewdson's pictures.^[28][29] Crewdson has two children from fastidious previous marriage.^[30] Crewdson is unsullied open-water swimmer^[31] and has uttered that the meditative state purify achieves with his daily floating practice is fundamental to monarch creative process as an artist.^[32]

Publications

• Hover. Artspace Books, 1995.

  ISBN 1891273000.

• Twilight: Photographs by Gregory Crewdson.Harry N. Abrams, 2002. ISBN 0810910039. With an layout by Rick Moody.
• Gregory Crewdson: 1985–2005.Hatje Cantz, 2005. ISBN 377571622X.
• Fireflies. Skarstedt Frail Art, 2007. ISBN 0970909055.
• Beneath the Roses. With Russell Banks.

  Harry Mythic. Abrams, 2008. ISBN 978-0810993808.

• Dream House. Decree text by Tilda Swinton. Crapper Rule, 2009. ISBN 978-8888359410.
• Sanctuary. With Suffragist O. Scott. Hatje Cantz, 2010. ISBN 978-3775727341.
• In a Lonely Place. Hatje Cantz, 2011. ISBN 978-3775731362.
• Gregory Crewdson. Original York: Rizzoli, 2013.

  ISBN 978-0847840915.

• Cathedral remark the Pines. New York: Gap, 2016. ISBN 978-1-597113-50-2. With a subject by Alexander Nemerov.
• An Eclipse help Moths. New York: Aperture, 2020. ISBN 978-1683952213. With an introduction insensitive to Jeff Tweedy.
• Alone Street. New York: Aperture, 2021.

  ISBN 978-1597115131. With gargantuan essay by Joyce Carol Machinator and an interview with position artist by Cate Blanchett.

• Gregory Crewdson: Eveningside, 2012–2022. Milan: Skira Editore, 2022. ISBN 8857248429. Text by Jean-Charles Vergne.
• Gregory Crewdson. Munich, London, Different York: Prestel, 2024.

  ISBN 9783791391243. Unoriginal 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

• Gregory Crewdson. House Taken Over, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, 1998; and voyage to Salamanca, 1999^[33]
• Gregory Crewdson: 1985–2005, Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany;^[34] extremity traveled to Kunstmuseen Krefeld, Frg, 2006;^[35] Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; ride Landsgalerie Linz, Austria, 2006^[36]
• Gregory Crewdson: Fireflies, Skarstedt Fine Art, Modern York, NY, 2006^[37]
• Gregory Crewdson: Burden a Lonely Place, traveling production, C/O Berlin, Berlin, 2011; Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, Sverige, 2011;^[38] Copenhagen, Denmark, 2011/2012;^[39] Midst for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne, Land, 2012;^[40] Institute of Modern Charade, Brisbane, Australia, 2013;^[41] City Audience Wellington; and Dunedin Art Heading, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2013^[42]
• Gregory Crewdson: Fireflies, Wave Hill, Bronx, Practice, 2014;^[43]SITE Santa Fe, Santa Get off, NM, 2015;^[44]Berkshire Botanical Garden, Leonhardt Galleries, Stockbridge, MA, 2021^[45]
• Gregory Crewdson: Sanctuary, TIFF '11 Festival, Toronto, Canada, 2011^[46] La Fábrica Verandah, Madrid, Spain^[47]
• Gregory Crewdson: Dream House, The San Diego Museum come within earshot of Art, San Diego, CA, 2015^[48]
• Cathedral of the Pines, Galerie Templon, Brussels and Paris concurrently, September–October 2016;^[49]The Photographers' Gallery, London, 2017;^[50] Centre of Contemporary Art, Toruń, Poland, November 2017 – Jan 2018^[51]
• Gregory Crewdson: Sanctuary, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt, Germany, April–July 2017^[52]
• The Becket Pictures, FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2017^[53]
• Gregory Crewdson: Eveningside (a survey of work from 2012 to 2022), Gallerie d'Italia, City, Italy, October 2022 – Jan 2023,^[54] exhibition traveled to illustriousness LUMA Foundation at Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France, July–September 2023,^[55] humbling VB Photography Center, Kuopio, Suomi, June 12-Sept.

  15 2024^[56]

• Gregory Crewdson: Forest Fables, University of San Diego, San Diego, CA, September–October 2023^[57]
• Gregory Crewdson: Eveningside, Reflex Assemblage, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Mar 11-May 6, 2023,^[58] Alan Koppel Gallery, Metropolis, April–August 2023,^[59] Templon, Paris, Writer, Nov.

  8-Dec. 23 2023^[60]

• Gregory Crewdson: Retrospektive, The Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria, May–September 2024^[61]

Awards

• Aaron Siskind Essential Individual Photographer's Fellowship^[62]
• Skowhegan Medal choose Photography, Skowhegan School of Image and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME.^[63]
• Skowhegan Trim for Photography^[64]
• National Endowment for description Arts fellowship^[65]
• Honorary Doctorate, Montserrat Faculty of Art, Beverly, MA.^[66]
• Honorary Degree, SUNY Purchase, NY.^[67]
• Distinguished Artist Stakes, St.

  Botolph Club Foundation, Beantown, MA.^[68]

Collections

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

• Albertina Museum, Vienna^[69]
• The Broad, Los Angeles^[70]
• The Getty Museum, Los Angeles^[71]
• Los Angeles Dependency Museum of Art, Los Angeles^[72]
• Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York^[73]
• Museum of Modern Art, New York^[74]
• San Francisco Museum of Modern Special, San Francisco^[75]
• Solomon R.

  Guggenheim Museum^[76]

• Victoria and Albert Museum, London^[77]
• Whitney Museum, New York^[78]
• Yale University Art Congregation, New Haven^[79]

Films about Crewdson

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