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| Twilight: Photographs by Gregory Crewdson | 
 enlarge | Authors: Gregory Crewdson, Rick Moody
Creator: Gregory Crewdson
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 53276
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 10.1 x 0.8
ISBN: 0810910039
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.092
EAN: 9780810910034
ASIN: 0810910039
Publication Date: April 22, 2002
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Synopsis
Crewdson's most recent series of photographs, Twilight, are created as elaborately constructed film stills, catching the mysterious moment of time between before and after, revealing unknowable or unimaginable aspects of domestic reality. A cow lies on its back on the lawn between two houses while firemen secure the area and a man searches the sky. Could the cow have rained down from above? In another image stacks and stacks of inedible slices of bread - bearing an odd resemblance to the mysterious monoliths at Stonehenge - are watched over by a gathering of birds. Both entirely foreign and oddly familiar, these images are carefully orchestrated events that challenge our very notions of familiarity, undermining our sense of certainty. These eerie and evocative photographs pair beauty with horror, obsession with disgust, and the real with the surreal, suggesting narratives open to endless interpretations. The book includes an essay written by fiction writer Rick Moody.The book and exhibitions are comprised of the forty images from his Twilight series which was begun in 1998 - these exhibitions and this book chronicle the completion of the series and mark the first time it will be seen in its entirety.
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 Beautiful lighting April 6, 2008
The lighting in this book is really inspiring and the subtle narrative is quite interesting as it becomes slightly surreal. Gregory Crewdson really sets the mood well in these images and I have enjoyed his creative set in this book. It is also a good read about Gregory Crewdson himself and his insperations.
The Uncanny Encapsulated August 1, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
In Crewdson's Twilight series, he has managed to create a beautiful set of photographs that are so packed with narrative that each image tells a story in a single frame.
Many of the images, at first glance, appear to be fairly normal scenes from somewhere in the American Midwest. However, after looking at them again, you will see more and more detail. The deeper you comprehend each image, the more unsettling it becomes, and yet there is not anything in these images to shock or horrify. There is only a pervading sense of something else unexplained going on outside the confines of the photograph.
Crewdson has received praise and scorn in equal measure from people I know in the photography world. However, the latter has always seemed to me to be out of jealousy over the monumental effort (and finances) most of these images took to produce.
They are beautiful and very detailed. The most unsettling thing about them is that you don't really know why they make you feel unsettled.
 A window on a weird world May 13, 2006
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
A bizarre look into one man's warped mind. True - there are overtones of Lynchian suburbia which are heightened by the netherlight that permiates these worlds - but on the whole this is a stunning collection of original photographs. The book gives an insight into how each shot was staged and the large amount of work behind the scenes that the casual observer would not appreciate. Four years for a roll's worth of film is impressive in itself. Having seen the large prints hanging on the wall of the White Cube2 gallery in Hoxton, some of the impact is lost in small coffee-table sizing, but the subjects still stun with their outlandishness. Strange and unsettling - all the things that good art should be.
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