Gregory Crewdson
(2019, original release: 2004)

Nonfiction

eVideo

Provider: Kanopy

Details

PUBLISHED
Michael Blackwood Productions, 2004
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (streaming video file) (59 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

ISBN/ISSN
5576049
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Title from title frames

Gregory Crewdson is a leading figure in a major movement in photography, one that favors fantasy over realism and is often inspired by the cinema. Crewdson is interested in the psychology underlying the American suburban experience and finds photography to be the ideal medium to create the tense and often eerie scenes he envisions. His photographs emphasize the human condition; the melancholic nature of life in the suburbs and the alienation between individuals. Much like a film director he achieves his startling images by working with a professional crew including a director of photography, a camera operator, a production designer, actors and a casting director. Astonishingly elaborate sets are the rule for most of the “incidents” he creates. These tableaux are often based on paintings by American artists, including Edward Hopper and Norman Rockwell as well as scenes from well-known movies by directors such as Alfred Hitchcock and Steven Spielberg

Film

In Process Record

Anne Ross, Buzz Gray, Daniel Carp, Gregory Crewdson, Maureen Mueller, Melanie Willhide, Rick Sands

Originally produced by Michael Blackwood Productions in 2004

Mode of access: World Wide Web

In English

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