Twilight: Photographs by Gregory Crewdson

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Each of these three pictures feature themes and motifs and iconography that I still use as central elements in my pictures. It was deep in the forests of Becket, Massachusetts, that I finally felt darkness lift, experienced a reconnection with my artistic process, and moved into a period of renewal and intense creative productivity. It’s far from how a travel photographer or photojournalist works but I learned a lot about light by looking at his photos.

These eerie and evocative photographs pair beauty with horror, obsession with disgust, and the real with the surreal, suggesting narratives open to endless interpretations. This series of images has become increasingly dark, penetrating the psychological disquiet at the heart of the American family.

In this case, I took real moths that I photographed for a previous series and composited them into the light. So now I’m in the process of location scouting for this picture and then working with a very large team of people including carpenters and landscapers to build this house. Reaching the 25th anniversary has been a time of reflection, particularly looking through old snapshots and ephemera in support of the Avant Arte collaboration . I got given Twilight in hardback a few years ago - the amount of work that goes into each picture is immense. Gregory Crewdson - Twilight series, by kendo on Nov 17, 2023 14:40:38 GMT 1, Thanks for introducing this photogrpaher to me, I'm now a big fan and had a pick up a print.

The video above is great and well worth a look - very insighful and the work that goes on to produce the imagery! Started in 1998, the Twilight series explores his interest in the uncanny and its relationship to domesticity, nature and the American vernacular. Photograph: courtesy of the artist, Luhring Augustine and White Cube Gallery The dark side of smalltown America . Crewdson's recent photographs are increasingly dark and mysterious in tone as they move deeper into the psychological bedrock of social alienation, personal obsession, and sexual desire.

In his latest series of large-format color photographs, Cathedral of the Pines, Crewdson takes the viewer to the forests of Becket, Massachusetts—the locale of his earliest childhood memories and his home since 2011. The indefatigable artist has been the subject of exhibitions at the world’s most prestigious institutions, from the Museum of Modern Art and Centre Pompidou to the Stedelijk Museum and Tate Modern.