Born in Brooklyn in 1962, he filmed Eclipse of the Moths and the previous series of photographs about Berkshire in the summer, when the shadow is drawing on. Conveniently he has resigned from teaching duties at Yale University, where he is the director of the Graduate School of Photography. He graduated from the Yale School of the Arts in 1988 and is now director of research for photography.
His images show the reality of American suburbs and wildlife through the families and individuals who inhabit them, and his work is exhibited internationally, most notably at the Gagosian Gallery and is in collections including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. I met him in the photographer gallery to talk about his work and specifically about Pine Cathedral.
The personal show, which is spread over three floors, is a collection of photographs from 2013-2004 that blend the platitude of human existence with the bleak scenes of abandoned buildings in the small rural town of Beckett, Massachusetts and the surrounding forests… His photographs are carefully thought out and composed, presenting a complete yet ambiguous narrative within a photograph. His latest work, Pine Cathedral, will be on display in the Gagosian Gallery in New York in spring 2016.
Retrospectives of his work from 1985 to 2005 were exhibited in major museums in Europe from 2005 to 2008; travelling retrospectives of his work were exhibited in major museums in Europe from 2005 to 2008, including the Kunstverein in Hanover, Germany, the Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland and the Hasselblad Center in Sweden.
The John Berggrun Gallery is pleased to present a collection of the latest photos of Gregory Crewdson that opens Wednesday, October 22 and runs until Saturday, November 22.
Gregory Crewdson (born 26 September 1962) is an American photographer best known for his elaborate scenes of American homes and neighborhoods. As a teenager he was part of the punk rock band The Speedies, which later became popular in New York and sold concerts throughout the city.
Crewdson studied photography at SUNY Purchase in the mid-1980s near Port Chester, New York, then went to SUNY Purchase, New York State College to study photography in the mid-1980s, and after graduating from Yale University he received a master of fine arts degree.
Croodson has taught at Sarah Lawrence, Cooper Union, Vassar College and Yale University – “Twilight” (1998-2002 ), “Under the Roses” (2003-2008 ) and Night Eclipse – Among the most famous works of Gregory Crewdson – are Sanctuary (2009), which takes place in an abandoned Cinecittà studio outside Rome.
Crewdson has produced a number of famous works over the course of more than thirty years of his career, including The Miracle of Nature (1997), Twilight (2002) and Dream House (2008). As a professor of photography at Yale University, Crewdson has made a huge impact on his students and is the forerunner of a group of photographers who use meticulously assembled models and delivered components. These artists combine traditional styles of documentary photography with fantasy elements.
Crewdson began photographing suburban life while working on his Master of Fine Arts thesis at Yale from 1986 to 1988. He invited residents of nearby Lee, Massachusetts, to take part in a series of compositional genre scenes he built and then photographed in his studio. Architecting photographs as if they were a cinema, Gregory Croodson plays God with his surroundings to create eerie countryside scenes completely out of place.
In his latest work, which has been produced over the last three years, the artist continues to explore the fertile fringes of American jargon – now with less emphasis on characters and drama and more emphasis on atmosphere and setting – He also graduated from Yale University School of Art and now directs the Graduate School of Photography. His most famous works were The Miracle of Nature (1992-97), Twilight (1998-2002), Dream House (New York Times – Commission in 2002), Under the Roses (2003-08)
Croodson often works with a large team to prepare each image with meticulous attention to detail, combining light, color and scenery to evoke dreamlike scenes steeped in mystery and obscurity. He uses the suburbs as the backdrop against which his psychological dramas unfold.
This moment of transcendence is what interests me when a person is transported to another place in a perfect and motionless world and find this documentary by Ben Shapiro very engaging and compelling.
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