Gregory Crewdson's 'An Eclipse of Moths'

[Tin Can]

Gregory Crewdson's 'An Eclipse of Moths' reveals melancholy and mystery in small-town America


Interesting in many ways

[Alan Klein]

What does he do with his work?

[Tin Can]

https://gagosian.com/artists/gregory-crewdson/

[Renato Tonelli]

'Melancholy' describes the work very well.

[sperdynamite]

Some bad HDR in those new pieces. Personally I think he should have stuck with large format.

[paulbarden]

Some bad HDR in those new pieces. Personally I think he should have stuck with large format.

I can find no information that suggests he has transitioned from film to digital. Where have you seen reference to his current tools?

[sperdynamite]

I saw a BTS shot from one of the images. They were doing tethered capture. I think they were using a tech camera of some kind. One of the prints was made by Acorn Editions and a guy who runs an instagram account associated with them confirmed he shoots digital now.

GC probably could care less what capture tech he uses I'm sure. He makes money on books and large prints sold to well heeled collectors. I don't think any of these post modern guys and gals care about craft. Plus if he does any ad work I'm sure digital is par for the course.

But, from my perspective, analog is just more beautiful. It has a real 'original' negative/positive. 8x10 has cachet. Plus, with his ginormous prints there is no way the 80-150mp backs look as good as a sheet of Provia scanned on a Tango.

[Jody_S]

GC probably could care less what capture tech he uses I'm sure. He makes money on books and large prints sold to well heeled collectors. I don't think any of these post modern guys and gals care about craft.

From the Gagosian site:

Crewdson is a graduate of SUNY Purchase and the Yale University School of Art, where he is now director of graduate studies in photography.

I certainly hope he still cares about the craft of photography.

[reddesert]

I guess that most of you who are familiar with Crewdson's work know that it's highly staged and lit. The behind the scenes photos at the first link Randy posted show a few examples, such as (if this direct link works) image #3, https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/gr...n=true#image=3

I think the lighting of the foreground produces an image with some similarities to recent HDR trends, but his work has always had elements of this, even before HDR was a fad. He might be doing both digital capture and shooting 8x10s - by the time you're using two lifts and spraying down the entire parking lot, what's adding a second camera?

[Christopher Barrett]

I have a couple of Crewdson's books. I love his work, but I think it kind of misses. If you've ever seen the documentary or behind the scenes images, there is an amazing amount of craft that goes into making his photographs... he just hires all of it. Also, yeah... those images linked look awful. His work is usually gorgeous.