(Crewdson’s final photo in the series, fittingly titled “Brief Encounter,” needed 75 lights deployed along a half-mile stretch.) Finally, at twilight on the second day, they take some 40-50 ...

Crewdson carefully constructs his tableaux and then bathes them in soft, suffusing twilight, real and artificial. Then he takes the photograph. Something has happened or is about to happen; we don ...

In 2011, fine-art photographer Gregory Crewdson left New York to live in a solitary church in the Berkshires. Coping with a difficult divorce, he found renewal in daily open-water swims and cross ...

(Courtesy Gagosian Gallery) Mr. Shapiro follows Crewdson behind the scenes of some of his most elaborate sets and best-known works, like those of his series “Twilight,” to reveal the artist at ...

Gregory Crewdson is a creature of habit. “I try to do almost the exact same thing each day,” he said from his home in Becket, Massachusetts, explaining that his routine is structured down to ...

The images that comprise Crewdson’s new series, “Beneath the Roses,” take place in the ... exhibited artist whose photographs are also the subject of Abrams’ Twilight. He teaches at the Yale ...

Gregory Crewdson (American, b.1962) is best known for his elaborately staged, intensely saturated cinematic photographs. In particular, his series Twilight (1998–2002) presents scenes of American ...

Three decades later, Crewdson is reflecting across all his work as a major retrospective opens at the Albertina museum in ...