Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson (born September 26 1962) is an American photographer who is best known for elaborately staged, surreal scenes of American homes and neighborhoods.

Crewdson was born in Park Slope, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. As a teenager was part of a punk rock group called The Speedies that hit the New York scene referencing Preston North End in many of their songs. Their hit song "Let Me Take Your Foto" proved to be prophetic to what Crewdson would become later in life. In 2005, Hewlett Packard used the song in advertisements to promote its digital cameras.

In the mid 1980s Crewdson studied photography at SUNY Purchase, near Port Chester, NY. He received his Master of Fine Arts from Yale University. He has taught at Sarah Lawrence, Cooper Union, Vassar College and Yale University where he has been on the faculty since 1993.

Crewdson is represented in New York at the [http://www.luhringaugustine.com/index.php?mode=artists&object_id=66 Luhring Augustine Gallery] and in London by the [http://www.whitecube.com/ White Cube Gallery]

Bibliography

Photography books

* "Hover": Artspace Books, 1995, ISBN 1-891273-00-0 (first hardcover ed.)
* "Twilight: Photographs by Gregory Crewdson," with essay by Rick Moody: Harry N. Abrams, 2003, ISBN 0-8109-1003-9 (first hardcover ed.)
* "Gregory Crewdson: 1985-2005": Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2005, ISBN 3-7757-1622-X (first hardcover ed.)
* "Gregory Crewdson: Fireflies": Skarstedt Fine Art, 2007, ISBN 0970909055 (first hardcover ed.)
* "Beneath the Roses," with Russell Banks: Abrams, 2008, ISBN 978-0810993808

Articles

* “Aesthetics of Alienation,” "TATE ETC.", Issue 1, Volume 1, Summer 2004, pp. 42-47 [http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue1/article10.htm Full text online]
* [http://www.aperture.org/crewdson/ Aperture magazine profile] - includes interview about preproduction, production, and postproduction of images
* [http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1887082,00.html Guardian Article 10.4.06]
* [http://www.speediesremix.com/ The Speedies "feat" Gregory Crewdson, 1979]
* [http://jpgmag.com/stories/1194 Gregory Crewdson $1 Million Photo Shoot by Christopher Peterson]
* [http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/gallery/crewdsonline/ Behind the Scenes: Caught Looking Michele McDonald, Boston Globe]
* [http://shuffleboil.com/2008/01/25/gregory-crewdson/ shuffleboil interview (01/2008)]
* [http://www.aperture.org/crewdson/ Interviews, Production Stills, and Images published by "Aperture" (04/2008)]
* [http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/13525/gregory-crewdson/ Afrtinfo interview (03/2006)]
* [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5157819 NPR interview (01/2006)]
* [http://www.kultureflash.net/archive/123/priview.html KultureFlash interview (11/2005)]
* [http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/gregory-crewdson.html Gregory Crewdson's Epic Effects] By Kenneth R. Fletcher, Smithsonian Magazine, June 2008

External links

* [http://www.artnet.com/awc/gregory-crewdson.html Gregory Crewdson catalogue in artnet's "Artist Works Catalogues"]
* [http://www.frieze.com/shows/review/gregory_crewdson/ Gregory Crewdson at White Cube, frieze.com]
* [http://www.hoverproductions.com/ Hover Productions] - Gregory Crewdson's Official Website
* [http://www.whitecube.com/artists/crewdson/ White Cube Gallery: Gregory Crewdson's London Representative]
* [http://www.luhringaugustine.com/index.php?mode=artists&object_id=66 Luhring Augustine Gallery: Gregory Crewdson's U.S. Representative]
* [http://filminfocus.com/article/gregory_crewdson Five In Focus: Gregory Crewdson] - Crewdson picks five movies that have influenced his photographic style
* cite web |publisher= Victoria and Albert Museum
url= http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/photography/past_exhns/twilight/crewdson/index.html
title= Photographs from Twilight exhibition
work= Photography
accessdate= 2008-07-13