Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson’s uncanny cinematic photographs capture the ennui, eeriness, and decay at the heart of small-town America. Drawing on the work of photographers including William Eggleston and Diane Arbus and the fantastical films of Steven Spielberg and David Lynch, Crewdson plans out his large-format frames with meticulous detail; the photographer often employs large crews and film equipment to ensure that the final images evoke significant narrative and atmosphere. Crewdson studied at SUNY Purchase before receiving an MFA in photography from Yale. His work belongs in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others.