Gregory Crewdson: Eveningside 2012-2022

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Considered one of the greatest exponents of staged photography, Gregory Crewdson has drawn a portrait of middle America, enclosed in the intermediate spaces of modest-sized cities, an America with eyes wide open towards the lights of a dream in exhaustion, already exhausted, already dilapidated. His photographs, staged with the devices of the cinema, have assembled the fragments of a twilight world, populated by the neutral faces of its protagonists, frozen like ruins that ignore themselves in a present cracked by the oracular manifestations of imperceptible decompositions.

This book brings together for the first time the trilogy conceived between 2012 and 2022. It unfolds an unprecedented vision of a decade of creation and reveals the intimate and political sides of the universe that has established Gregory Crewdson as one of photography's major figures. Cathedral of the Pines and An Eclipse of Moths vibrate with an intimacy crystallized by places deeply connected to the life of the photographer, his partner and collaborator Juliane Hiam and their children. At the same time, these two series shift towards a political dimension which finds its most subtle expression in the black and white photographs of Eveningside which close the trilogy in 2022. To this trilogy is added the Fireflies series, produced in 1996, which is essential for capturing the intimate movements that operate in his art.

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For the series, the photographer returned to Adams, Massachusetts, and transformed vacant storefronts, revisiting locations from earlier series. Many of his bodies of work are interlinked by recurring buildings, people and other small details for the eagle-eyed.--Jacqui Palumbo "CNN: Style"
Provides unique insight into a decade of creation and offer a comprehensive view of the universe that has positioned Crewdson as one of the major figures of contemporary photography.--Ghalib Dhalla "Indulge"

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Jean-Charles Vergne is the Director of the FRAC Auvergne since 1996 and an art critic, art book editor and curator. Interested in artists such as Luc Tuymans, Albert Oehlen, Richard Tuttle, David Lynch, Darren Almond, Eberhard Havekost, Raoul de Keyser, Katharina Grosse, he has curated more than 150 exhibitions since 1997.