, has said that the nighttime photography of Gregory Crewdson has “inspired me with its heightened reality.” Eric Messerschmidt, the DP ofand a former assistant of Crewdson’s, has stated that the artist’s work “lives right on the edge between reality and surrealism.
His new photos, which depict landscapes that feel like a portrait of small-town America in decay, were all shot in 2018 on the outskirts of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. “In a certain way it feels like exactly the right time to show them, because the pictures have taken on a strange relevance with the moment we are in.
Another work, “Funerary Back Lot,” was shot on a location Crewdson found where “a man casts burial vaults which are the things that coffins are lowered into. It was at the edge of this trailer park and I thought this was such an evocative location for a picture. There’s a teenage couple, this teenage boy is sitting on these cement steps and there’s who might be his girlfriend bathing in one of the burial vaults filled with rainwater.
Lighting is a particular preoccupation, something Crewdson works closely on with his director of photography Rick Sands. “We have lights that are in cranes looking down on the street. We have lights in different storefronts. We have lights in the cars, and then because the streetlamp is so pivotal to the pictures, we worked with the city here. They turned off all the streetlamps on the location and then we put our on light sources in.
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