Gregory Crewdson’s photos reveal melancholy and mystery in small-town America

Jacqui Palumbo | CNN | 30th September 2020

Crewdson specializes in constructed images – photographs where he creates many aspects of the image. This practice may sound like contemporary movie-making but actually has a history in photography going back to Victorian times. His current work, set in a “dreary post-industrial town”, exudes a sense of malaise.  Says one writer, his are “half-stories, with no prelude and no denouement”.