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“I think maybe the figures - that's a good word - the figures in my pictures are stand-ins for my own need to make a connection.”

Quote by Gregory Crewdson

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Gregory Crewdson

Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer known for his meticulously crafted, narrative-driven photographs. His work often depicts fictional, surreal scenes with a cinematic narrative style. Crewdson's photographs delve into the complexities and contradictions of middle-class American life. more

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“There's a parallel between me going through these enormous efforts to try to make a moment that means something - and in a way, the figures are doing the same thing. There is that parallel, for sure.”

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“The whole reason I make these pictures is for those moments of clarity. For that single moment, everything seems to make sense in my world. And I think we all look for that in our lives, because our lives are generally filled with chaos and confusion and disorder and complication.”

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“We all strive to find moments of clarity, of order.”

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“My mom just recently reminded me that I used to build these little miniature worlds outside at our country house and populate it with little figures.That whole thing [shooting is] about trying to create a world - there's something very connected to childhood and reverie and daydreaming and fantasy.”

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“I was really fixated when I was a child. Again my mother was just talking to me about this, about how I would how try to get details exactly right. I guess I was always very persistent.”

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“I'm not that particularly talented in terms of making anything or - I'm not technically efficient. I certainly don't know how to draw very well or paint, and I'm not good with computers. But I think the thing that I'm good at is willing something into life, no matter what. I do what it takes to get it done.”

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