Featuring GREGORY CREWDSON, photographer, Untitled, 2003-2008, Digital pigment print, image size 57 x 88 in. © Gregory Crewdson

Date: Tuesday, November 17

Time: 7pm
Venue: Columbia Global Centers | Paris   
Grande Salle Ginsberg-LeClerc
4 rue de Chevreuse, Paris 6e

 Gregory Crewdson’s photographs have entered the American visual lexicon, taking their place alongside the paintings of Edward Hopper and the films of Alfred Hitchcock and David Lynch as indelible evocations of a silent psychological interzone between the everyday and the uncanny. Often working with a large team, Crewdson typically plans each image with meticulous attention to detail, orchestrating light, color, and production design to conjure dreamlike scenes infused with mystery and suspense. While the small-town settings of many of Crewdson’s images are broadly familiar, he is careful to avoid signifiers of identifiable sites and moments, establishing a world outside time, the conflation of theater and everyday life.

In a career spanning more than three decades, he has produced a succession of widely acclaimed bodies of work, from Twilight (1998-2002) to Beneath the Roses (2003-2008), a series that employed a crew of more than 100 people and was the subject of the 2012 feature documentary Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters, by Ben Shapiro; Cathedral of the Pines (2013–14), and more recently, Eveningside (2021-2022).

Following Paris Photo, this world renowned and sui generis photographer will be in conversation with Arts Arena Founder and Artistic Director Margery Arent Safir. Crewdson is Director of Graduate Studies in Photography at the Yale School of Art, and this event is presented in partnership between The Arts Arena and Yale School of Art.
 
A coupe de champagne will follow.
 
Reservations are required: rsvp@artsarena.org