Gregory Crewdson, from 2 December 2006 until 25 February 2007
The Hague Museum of Photography presents the first ever major retrospective of work by American photographer Gregory Crewdson. Since the mid-1980s, he has been making staged photographs reminiscent of film scenes. Using suburban America as a background, he investigates the fears, neuroses and secret desires of a society peering into the bottomless pit of its own psyche. The photographs have a hypnotic effect on the viewer, seeming to tell a weird story without beginning or end. Crewdson’s work is, on the one hand, in the tradition of realistic representations of rural America represented by William Eggelston and Walker Evans. On the other, its theatrical lighting and narrative style links it to the staged photography movement in the work of photographers like Jeff Wall and Cindy Sherman. Crewdson’s photographs are the result of a highly complex and time-consuming process. They are created by a large team – partly on location and partly in the studio – and then digitally manipulated.

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