Gregory Crewdson

I find I am extremely drawn to the cinematic elements of Gregory Crewdson's photographs, as well as the eeriness that the viewer finds when looking at them. He uses light not only as an aesthetic quality but also as another presence in the photograph. This is the same kind of feel I am going for. Using the light as a presence, as another character reacting to the figure. I want to try to move my work indoors again since I have many images I am happy with from the outdoors. These images give me insight into how to make drama out of the mundane feel of the suburban interiors. 


Biography:


"Gregory Crewdson was born in Brooklyn, New York, on September 26, 1962. His first experience of photography, at the age of ten, was a Diane Arbus retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. At sixteen, he played in a band called the Speedies, whose first single was titled "Let Me Take Your Foto." In 1985, he received a B.A. from the State University of New York at Purchase, where he studied photography with Jan Groover and Laurie Simmons. He graduated with an M.F.A. in photography from Yale University in 1988. For his thesis project, he took photographic portraits of residents of the area around Lee, Massachusetts, where his family had a cabin." (Metroartwork.com)


Quotes:


"I think the process, in my mind, is as important as the picture itself."- Gregory Crewdson


"I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood."-Gregory Crewdson

Website

Interview

Gallery

"Gregory Crewdson Biography and Artwork - MetroArtWork." MetroArtWork - MetroArtWork. Web. 01 Nov. 2010. <http://metroartwork.com/gregory-crewdson-biography-artwork-m-61.html>.