Gregory Crewdson

(Hardback)

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Filled with meticulously constructed photographs that blur the boundaries between reality and imagination, this sumptuously produced retrospective features more than thirty years of work by one of America's most influential photographers. 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 Cinecitta` 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. AUTHOR: Walter Moser is head of the department of photography at The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna. He studied history of art in Vienna and Rome. He has curated several exhibitions and is the author of many publications on photography. He teaches at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. SELLING POINTS: . Perfect for lovers of photography and art in general. A retrospective including Crewdson's total of eleven groups of works, created over the last three and a half decades. . Gregory Crewdson is one of the best-known contemporary US American photographers of his generation . Walter Moser is an internationally renowned author and photography expert who heads one of the most important collections of photography, that of the Albertina in Vienna. . Lavishly designed with a paper change. 240 illustrations

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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 showbrings 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 shows curator, Walter Moser, framed the exhibition andcatalogaround Crewdsons 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 twosomes forlorn gazes into a television as its glow illuminates a basement, paired with writings from directorsDavid FincherandMatthieu Orlan,and novelistEmily St. John Mandel,among others." - VANITY FAIR

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WALTER MOSER is head of the department of photography at The ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna. He studied history of art in Vienna and Rome. He has curated several exhibitions and is the author of many publications on photography. He teaches at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna.