Ovation TV | Close Up: Gregory Crewdson

In this Ovation TV original special, acclaimed photographers Albert Maysles, Sylvia Plachy, Andrew Moore and Timothy Greenfield-Sanders discuss the impact their work has on their lives and on culture as a whole.

is an American photographer who is best known for elaborately staged, surreal scenes of American homes and neighborhoods.

In this interview, acclaimed photographer, Gregory Crewdson shares with us insight into his techniques.

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[Scudbook27]

You don't have a clue what you are talking about cobraii27. Gregory Crewdson is a Photographic Alchemist..............a Master!! How many other 'Commercial' Photographers do you know that can demand $80,000 to $100,000 per print?

[RickLordTV]

Lighting is everything in a photograph, it is subjective in every way. Whether the lighting instruments are huge or small or placed a certain way compared to another, Gregory's lighting scheme is still very interesting and compelling. I love working with Motion Picture Lighting instruments for still digital photography. The only way to truly paint a scene.

[gwcstudio]

@Scudbook27 - what someone is willing to pay for something is not always an indicator of how good it is. A lot of art is manipulation of perception, and perception of value is part of it. I like the stuff Crewsdon produces, but I feel it's a bit of a circus act more than that it's photography, if that makes sense.

[gwcstudio]

I love his stuff, but: he doesn't work the camera, he doesn't do the lighting, he doesn't build the sets... What is he, an "executive photographer"?

[koocky86]

The picture with the car and the snow reminds me so much of Edward Hoppers pictures. Awesome.

[BigPreme]

@cobraii27 where is your work?

[hurrayleon]

Gregory Crewdson means for photography what Peter Greenaway for cinema

[mplayer98]

My name is not Oswald! It's Penguin! I am not a human being!

[sunday1K1indoflove]

and as for the "he doesn't hold his own camera" discussion. He shoots with a large format camera, 8x10 negatives, have any of you ever held a large format camera to take a photo? No you haven't because it's physically impossible. He's made a career out of this and one photograph is worth three or fours times the amount that your car does. He can can have whoever he wants to do the set up for him. If you put batteries into my flash and i took a photo using it would you say you took it?

[sunday1K1indoflove]

First off photography is an art, i myself am a photography student and the first thing you learn is that you aren't a photographer until you've shot about a thousand rolls of film. The people that run around with $10,000 worth of equipment and have never stepped into a darkroom to produce a gallery worthy print, ARE NOT PHOTOGRAPHERS. This man is and he is an artist along with that. Anyone on their way to getting a degree will tell you the camera doesn't make the image the person behind it does

[derris]

He's one of my favourite photographers