My pictures are about everyday life combined with theatrical effect. I want them to feel outside of time, to take something routine and make it irrational. Iām always looking for a small moment that is a revelation
Gregory CrewdsonWhat's important to me is that there's a necessary alienation between me and the subject. I don't want to know them well. I don't want to have any intimate contact with them.
Gregory CrewdsonIām interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire
Gregory CrewdsonFor all the talk of my pictures being narratives or that they're about storytelling, there's really very little actually happening in the pictures. One of the few things I always tell people in my pictures is that I want less - give me something less.
Gregory CrewdsonUsually I'll drive to certain locations over and over again, over a course of months really. And then it might just be I hit it at the right time, and the right light. And then I might go to that location over and over again, and then what happens in that lag time where - the image sort of locks in - all of a sudden I see it in my mind's eye.
Gregory Crewdson