GREGORY CREWDSON 1985 - 2005

Gregory Crewdson 1985-2005 All of Gregory Crewdson's great photographsin one volume - including his latest series, Beneath the Roses. In hisphotographs, Gregory Crewdson (born in 1962 in Brooklyn, New York)presents artfully condensed stories that essentially deal with thepenetration of the mysterious into normalcy. In an image from his Twilightseries (1998-2002), we see yellow school buses parked outside white woodenhouses. Groups of students stand or lie around passively in differentplaces. An idyllic scene, but only at first glance, as the image seemsoddly "uncanny" in the Freudian sense. It shows something familiar yetunsettling, different, and somewhat inexplicable. What is really happeninghere? Crewdson goes to great lengths in dramatizing his disturbing suburbanscenes, employing means more typical of Hollywood film productions. Usingelaborate lighting, cranes, props, and extras, he stages his scenes, whichare at the same time always an accurate portrayal of everyday life inAmerica, with obsessive attention to detail. This publication is the first to assemble all of the artist'sphotographic productions in a single volume and includes his most recent,previously unpublished series Beneath the Roses.