Gregory Crewdson
Published on 6. June 2024
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Hardback
280 pages
978-3-7913-7738-4 (ISBN)
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For more than three decades, Gregory Crewdson has been luring viewers into the worlds of his cinematic, highly detailed, and assiduously crafted photographs. This retrospective catalog features images from nine series that represent a broad chronological spectrum of Crewdson's oeuvre.
Included are selections from Twilight, the eerie and often darkly humorous photographs inspired by Stephen Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Beneath the Roses, which illuminates townscapes, forest clearings and broad, desolate streets with unsettling clarity; the black and white images of Sanctuary, shot on location at the legendary Cinecittà studios on the outskirts of Rome; Cathedral of the Pines, a paean to the beauty and tragedy of a gritty western Massachusetts town; and Eveningside, in which moments of alienation and wonder occur within the confines of quotidian life. With highest quality reproductions, paper changes, and incisive essays by photography expert Walter Moser and other esteemed art historians, this exhibition catalog reveals why Crewdson's powerful, elegiac and painterly photos draw comparisons to old master painting, staged photography and auteur cinema.
Included are selections from Twilight, the eerie and often darkly humorous photographs inspired by Stephen Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind; Beneath the Roses, which illuminates townscapes, forest clearings and broad, desolate streets with unsettling clarity; the black and white images of Sanctuary, shot on location at the legendary Cinecittà studios on the outskirts of Rome; Cathedral of the Pines, a paean to the beauty and tragedy of a gritty western Massachusetts town; and Eveningside, in which moments of alienation and wonder occur within the confines of quotidian life. With highest quality reproductions, paper changes, and incisive essays by photography expert Walter Moser and other esteemed art historians, this exhibition catalog reveals why Crewdson's powerful, elegiac and painterly photos draw comparisons to old master painting, staged photography and auteur cinema.
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"Crewdson is reflecting across all his work as a major retrospective opens at the Albertina museum in Vienna, showing all his series together (minus his commercial work) for the first time. Among them, the self-titled show brings together his grand, eight-year endeavor "Beneath the Roses" from the mid-2000s, his earlier low-budget black-and-white images of "Hover" from 1996, and his meditative return to photography after a difficult period of divorce and transition, "Cathedral of the Pines" in 2013. The show's curator, Walter Moser, framed the exhibition and catalog around Crewdson's long dialogue with cinema, including inspirations such as David Lynch, Steven Spielberg and Alfred Hitchcock." - CNN"The book features more than 300 photographs and production stills that examine the complexities of American suburbia, be it through someone wandering a parking lot, shirtless and unmoored, or a twosome's forlorn gazes into a television as its glow illuminates a basement, paired with writings from directors David Fincher and Matthieu Orlean, and novelist Emily St. John Mandel, among others." - VANITY FAIR
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Walter Moser ist Chefkurator der Fotosammlung der Albertina, Wien. Er studierte Kunstgeschichte an den Universitäten Wien und Rom. Er hat viele Ausstellungsprojekte realisiert, unter anderem: Lewis Baltz (2013), BlowUp - Antonionis Filmklassiker und die Fotografie (2014), Lee Miller (2015), FilmStills - Fotografien zwischen Werbung, Kunst & Kino (2016), Österreich. Fotografie 1970-2000 (2017), Robert Frank (2018), Helen Levitt (2019), Faces. Die Macht des Gesichts (2021) und VALIE EXPORT (2023). Er ist Verfasser mehrerer Aufsätze und Publikationen zum Thema Fotografie sowie Gastprofessor an der Universität für angewandte Kunst, Wien.