Gregory Crewdson (born September 26, 1962) is an American photographer. He photographs tableaux of American homes and neighborhoods.
Table of Contents
- 1 Life and career
- 1.1 Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters
- 1.2 Gregory Crewdson: Alone Street
- 1.3 Twilight: Photographs by Gregory Crewdson
- 1.4 Beneath the Roses
- 1.5 Gregory Crewdson-Brief Encounters
- 1.6 Gregory Crewdson: The Aesthetics of Repression
- 1.7 Gregory Crewdson
- 1.8 Sanctuary
- 1.9 Gregory Crewdson: Cathedral of the Pines
- 1.10 Hover
Life and career
Crewdson was born in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. He attended John Dewey High School, graduating early.
As a teenager, he was ration of a talent pop organization called The Speedies that hit the New York scene. Their song, “Let Me Take Your Foto” proved to be prophetic to Crewdson’s forward-looking career. In 2005, Hewlett Packard used the appearance in advertisements to make known its digital cameras.
At Purchase College, State University of New York, he enrolled in a Photo 101 class taught by Laurie Simmons upon a whim, and fell in love with the medium. He went on to study subsequently Jan Groover previously graduating. He then usual his MFA in Photography at the Yale School of Art, where he is now a professor and director of graduate studies in Photography. In 2012, he was the subject of the feature documentary film Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters. The film series followed the construction and the behind-the-scenes explanation from Crewdson himself of his thought process and vision for his pieces of his collection Beneath the Roses.
Crewdson is represented by Gagosian Gallery.
Crewdson has been awarded the Skowhegan Medal for Photography and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship[citation needed]. His play has been shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Brooklyn Museum[citation needed].
Last update 2021-08-06