Famous Photographer #27: Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson had his first experience of photography at the Museum of Modern Art at the age of ten. He studied photography at the State University of New York. He graduated with an M.F.A in photography from Yale in 1988. He took portraits of people in the residential area near his family's cabin for his senior thesis. He took pictures of birds, mutilated body parts, and insects, which would later be put together in a series called Natural Wonder. For his next series he changed from colored close-up to bird-eye view black and white shots. His recent photographs have become quite popular among people in Hollywood. They are in color and enlarged to 50 X 60 inches. Crewdson plans to direct a feature film in the future and so his career as an artist will continue to grow.