Gregory Crewdson



Gregory Crewdson is an American Photographer. His work is all staged, but it is made to look not staged. Crewdson started his work when he wanted to make his own short film, but he realized how hard it would be to do an entire short film so instead, he made images that looked cinematic. Almost all of Crewdson’s images for this series, “Twilight”, were done in the same small town. However, some of his images are on sets that he and his team build from scratch. When he photographs in the small town he uses either people from the town or people from his crew. When it comes to Crewdson’s images his attention to detail is amazing. In the set above every little detail was a choice made by Crewdson. He also took several pictures of every production. Most, if not all, of his images were a compilation of the best elements from each of those pictures. In the end, this series had 40 images and it took him 4 years to complete.

Crewdson’s work just blows me away. I could never have the patience or attention to detail that he has and I admire him for that. He is able to take the vision of an image in his head and make it real. I also really love how he was so well known in the small town he went to that everyone knew him, and they knew what it meant when he came to town. And the fact that he was able to have streets closed off, and at one-time construction workers help, is amazing. I also love the cinematic quality of his images, it is just so intriguing. It makes me want to start coming up with a storyline for each image as if it were a snip from a film. Gregory Crewdson’s work is truly amazing.

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