Gregory Crewdson

Born 1962 in Brooklyn, still lives and works in New York today.

Studied photography in New York and received a Master of Fine Arts at Yale University. Besides working as a photographer the American has taught his passion at different universities, including Yale, where he is still teaching as a professor today.

Crewdson is known for his elaborate staging of small-town United States sceneries with a surreal, often melancholic and disturbing touch. He loves to create a dramatic and cinematic momentum, crossing fiction and reality for what he plans every little detail.

The artist is represented by galleries worldwide.

(Quelle: artnet)