Gregory Crewdson on CBS Sunday Morning

[Bill_1856]

An interesting segment this morning on Gregory Crewdson. I was not familiar with his work, but apparently he is HOT in the fine-art gallery market. (Not really my cup of Dektol.)

http://images.google.com/images?hl=e...&um=1&ie=UTF-8

[alec4444]

More like a giant still life. Imagine of the film got scratched in development!!!!

The final print looked a little "overdone" to my aesthetics, but I think it's great that people can make a living doing what they love. Can't fault the guy for that!

--A

[Robert Brummitt]

Yeah, I watched it. Very interesting of what he does to create his work. No wonder print prices are $100.000. He has to pay all those support people. Of course his prints are 7 feet long. Couldn't fit that in my home anywhere!
I wish to have a better close ups of some of the final prints. Looks like his Photoshop person softens to almost looking like paintings.
His work reminds me of painter Edward Hopper. Specially "Night Hawks"

[J Peterson]

I love Crewdsons work, wish I had of seen the program!

[tpersin]

His work reminds me of painter Edward Hopper. Specially "Night Hawks"

crewdson is a fan of Hopper's work. Look here: http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue1/article10.htm

[Robert Brummitt]

Thank you for sharing that link regarding Crewdson and Edward Hopper. Lets you see into Crewdson's ideas and influences.
Thank you again.

[joolsb]

I have seen his work at an exhibition and the impact of those huge prints is incredible - pin-sharp right down to the tiniest detail.

I guess you have to buy into that whole David Lynch 'weird suburbia' aesthetic to appreciate much of his work, though.

[Daniel Grenier]

Crewdson is more like a movie director rather than a photographer given his elaborate sets, props, lighting, actors. The main difference is, he uses an 8x10 still camera as opposed to a movie camera. His work is very hot indeed fetching around $60K per print if I recall correctly. Wish I'd seen the CBS piece.

[J Peterson]

Crewdson is more like a movie director rather than a photographer given his elaborate sets, props, lighting, actors. The main difference is, he uses an 8x10 still camera as opposed to a movie camera. His work is very hot indeed fetching around $60K per print if I recall correctly. Wish I'd seen the CBS piece.

Yes, It's amazing work. The production is that BIG that he has a director of photography and a camera operator. Some images are composites of 5 or 6 negs, retouched together.

Here's a great link to more of his process...

http://www.aperture.org/crewdson/

[mrladewig]

I'll try to watch this when I get home. We Tivo Sunday Morning and I didn't have a chance to watch it yesterday. They usually have good stories about artists.