Ten years in the making, Ben Shapiro's docu on celebrated photog Gregory Crewdson concentrates on his magnum opus, the collection of huge prints known as "Beneath the Roses." Producer-director ...

Crewdson acknowledges that many of the themes he’s returned to repeatedly, including the sense of being both “present yet absent,” are reflections of himself. His desire for a moment of ...

The expressions of surprise, the mood of disquieting expectation, the well-placed lights: all devices that he, Gregory Crewdson ... all lead to blind alleys, desolate squares, to places opening ...

Each series of the trilogy represents essential stages in Crewdson’s artistic journey ... to existential and expansive visions of the world, to reflections on deep respect and admiration for ...

Gregory Crewdson is a creature of habit ... roads in scouted locations during production. Still, Crewdson doesn’t turn a blind eye to the complexities of the settings he chooses.

It is a rare thing to witness the creative process. But in the excellent new documentary “Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters,” filmmaker Ben Shapiro gives us fly-on-the-wall access over a 10 ...

Signed on label affixed to the reverse Gregory Crewdson (American, b.1962 ... Buzz Aldrin's first steps on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission (visible in the reflection of Aldrin's helmet visor), ...