Anyone seen Gregory Crewdsons work?

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I ran across his book titled Twilight. Some very interesting photos. All large scale productions, more like a film set than a photo set.

Here is a link to some of his work. Although this site doesn't show any of the ones that I find most interesting. I'd like to see his other images from the hover series. Never heard of him before still I stumbled across his book last night.

http://www.artnet.com/ag/fineartthumbnails.asp?aid=4589
 
Very interesting, I saw some black & whites recently that were taken in a big city and some of them showed a person apparently levitating. Wonder if it was the same bloke. The pictures at the link have a creepy quality that is hard to articulate.
 
I 've seen the book and the making of some of the photos (PDN magazine a while back?). Very elaborate sets created to get these. Many hours of work just creating the sets for each image.
 
Mass Moca in North Adams, Massachusetts had some of these photographs in all their full size glory last year.

They are brilliant exercises in black humour, usually at the expense of the suburban cliches in US life.

You really need to see them in a gallery, they are big prints.

Mass Moca is located in a vast old factory complex, and features all kinds of contemporary art. Attaced is a photo that shows the kind of space MM has.

MM is definitely worth a trip any time you are in the New England area.

Jon Flanders

"Crewdson’s intricate compositions require up to four weeks of planning on the part of the artist and many hours of set design and lighting with the help of more than 35 stagehands, electricians, gaffers, and actors. These elaborate techniques, coupled with powerfully suggestive scenes, have garnered Crewdson recognition as one of the major forces in narrative photography."

full: http://www.massmoca.org/visual_arts/fantastic.html
 
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