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Let’s get the basics out of the way first. The early series Fireflies are small silver gelatin photographs that capture “the tiny insects’ transient moments of light as they illuminate the summer night.” These are minor works that fail to transcend the ephemeral nature of photography, fail to light the imagination of the viewer when looking at these scenes of dusky desire and discontinuous lives. Never have I seen so many people at the CCP looking at contemporary photography before and that can only be a good thing. With some reservations, I like Crewsdon’s work, I like it a lot – as do the crowds of people flocking to the Centre for Contemporary Photography, Fitzroy to see the exhibition.
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It is that sense of in-between-ness that interests me.”ĭownfall of a dream: (n)framing the enigma in Gregory Crewdson’s Beneath the RosesĪfter the excoriating, unreasonably subjective diatribe by Robert Nelson in The Age newspaper (“Unreal stills, unmoving images” Wednesday October 17 2012) I hope this piece of writing will offer greater insight into the work of this internationally renowned artist. My wish is for the narrative in the pictures to work within that circumstance. Its power of turning the ordinary into something magical and otherworldly. “I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight.
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Gregory Crewdson, ‘ In a Lonely Place’, Abrams Publishing, New York, 2011 Here, hushed-up violence, alienation, isolation, and emptiness are nothing new or unfamiliar, but rather part of the everyday neighbourhood experience.” In his perfectly staged, hyperrealistic tableaux, photographer Gregory Crewdson reveals the claustrophobic limbo and abyss of spiritual repression that is the typical suburb. “The American middle-class nightmare: nothing is clean, orderly, idyllic, or romantic. Courtesy Gagosian Galleryĭetails of one of Gregory Crewdson’s works from the series Beneath the Roses (2003-2008) (Photos: Dr Marcus Bunyan) Installation photographs of the series Beneath the Roses (2003-2008) from the exhibition Gregory Crewdson: In A Lonely Place at the Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP), Fitzroy, Melbourne (Photos: Dr Marcus Bunyan)
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