Gregory Crewdson

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Gregory Crewdson on location in Pittsfield, MA July 25, 2007

Untitled photo from Crewdson's series Beneath the Roses (2003-2005)

Gregory Crewdson portrait, July 2007

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 Luhring Augustine Gallery and in London by the White Cube Gallery

1 Bibliography
- 1.1 Photography books
- 1.2 Articles
2 External links

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] 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