Born: September 26, 1962 (Brooklyn, New York)Style of photography: surrealism, documentary, narrative-filmic, suburban landscape
Education: (Photography) SUNY Purchase, Master of Fine Art in Yale
Inspiration (similar to): William Eggleston, Walker Evans, Stephen Spielberg, David Lynch, The Twilight Zone
He was born and raised in a homely neighborhood called Park Slope, a decent place where you can find lots of historic buildings and various ethnicities. At the age of 10, Crewdson saw his first photography exhibition at MoMA it was a piece of work by Diane Arbus. The aesthetic experience encouraged him to explore the world of photography. He spent his teenage life as a vocalist in a punk-rock band called The Speedies, their song Let Me Take Your Photo was used as a jingle for the ad of Hewlett Packard's digital camera[LINK]. His unique style is a mixture of surrealism and 60's horror suburban landscape.
His early works show images of insects and animals.
Those images show something very odd (ex: alien comes to a neighboorhod, or a dead female body floating in a flooded house) but he shows it as if it's something normal, his angle is candid, the models pose in stiff-less-dynamic-gesture, everything looks honest, captivatingly-dark, and terrifying.
You couldn't find Crewdson's works without his epic's touch, as if those images are snapshots taken from a sci-fi movie. Crewdson has an interesting narration's approach. The storyline is like a full-circle, it's hard to identify the after and before of his storyline.
"I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformative quality. Its power of turning the ordinary into something magical and otherworldly. My wish is for the narrative in the pictures to work within that circumstance. It is that sense of in-between-ness that interests me." -Gregory Crewdson
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