Gregory Crewdson is a famous American photographer who is best know for elaborately staged, surreal scenes of American homes and neighborhoods. Crewdson’s photographs are often described as cinematic, and they layer David Lynch’s surreal dread over Alfred Hitchcock’s snap-trap narratives of suspense. Each image operates as a compacted drama, with the significance spread between various visual points within the image. It is between these points that a density of meaning and narrative is constructed; in this sense, Crewdson references classical ideas of symbolic representation that are located in painting rather than cinema, or even photography.
"I think I always have been drawn to photography because I want to construct a perfect world. I want to try to create this moment that is separate from the chaos of my life, and to do that I think I create enormous disorder. And I like that craziness because I think that it creates almost a sort of neurotic energy on the set, and through that there is a moment of transportation. And in all my pictures what I am ultimately interested in is that moment of transcendence or transportation, where one is transported into another place, into a perfect, still world. Despite my compulsion to create this still world, it always meets up against the impossibility of doing so. So, I like the collision between this need for order and perfection and how it collides with a sense of the impossible. I like where possibility and impossibly meet."
Gregory Crewdson, from an interview on Egg
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