Gregory Crewdson is an American fine art photographer and professor known for his realistic landscape photography. He combines documentary and dream-like styles, building elaborate sets to capture extraordinary details and narratives in frozen moments that explore the blurred lines between reality and fiction. His most recent series, Sanctuary, features abandoned sets from Cinecitta studios outside Rome that he transformed into scenes of everyday life.

1. Gregory Crewdson
Born: 26th September 1962
Occupation: Fine Art Photographer,
LandscapePhotographer, and Professor.
Style: American Realist Landscape
Photography.
(Sources:
http://whitecube.com/artists/gregory_c
rewdson/and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_
Crewdson).
Gregory Crewdson works within a photographic tradition that combinesthe
documentary styleof William Eggleston and Walker Evans, with the dream-like
vision of filmmakerssuch as Steven Spielberg and David Lynch.
His method is equally filmic, as he buildselaborate sets to take his pictures in
extraordinary detail and narrativeportent.
His photography pieces are referred to ‘limitation of a photograph in terms of
narrativecapacity to have an image that is frozen in time, (where) there’s no before
or after’ and this has turned the visualsthat are restriction into a uniquemessage of
strength and meaning.
His most recent series of photography, ‘Sanctuary’, were shot outside the groundsof
the legendary Cinecitta studios, outsideof Rome, Italy. Which Gregory madethem,
his subject of the series as where actors and crews abandoned this place but bought
it to ‘sets of life’. Gregory Crewdson stated that he was looking“at the blurred lines
between reality and fiction, natureand artifice, and beauty and decay.”
Unlimited (1) ‘Sanctuary’ 2009,
Framed: 28 ½ x 35 ¼ inches (72.4 x
89.5 cm)
Printed on Pigmented Inkjet Print.