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“I’m interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire”

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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“Every artist has a central story to tell, and the difficulty, the impossible task, is trying to present that story in pictures”

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“My pictures are about everyday life combined with theatrical effect. I want them to feel outside of time, to take something routine and make it irrational. I’m always looking for a small moment that is a revelation”

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“For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps.”

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“I think that, in a sense, there's something about photography in general that we could associate with memory, or the past, or childhood.”

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“My pictures must first be beautiful, but that beauty is not enough. I strive to convey an underlying edge of anxiety, of isolation, of fear.”

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“I really love that dynamic between beauty and sadness...theres always these moments of quiet alienation, the sense of disconnect, but also, these moments of possibility.”

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“I actually had to get two fillings. Yeah, I swear. My teeth had been bugging me because I had been eating so much junk food on the road. I was the worst on teh team because I always had a bag of candy with me. I never had any cavities before, but yesterday, I took two for the team.”

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“If you are quiet on the bench you will just get swallowed up. It is like a mosh pit.”

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“I feel annoyed that in His wisdom, [God] chose to reel me in with middle-brow Christian fiction. It could be worse, I suppose. I could have come to faith while reading Left Behind.”

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“Some days I am not sure if my faith is riddled with doubt, or whether, graciously, my doubt is riddled with faith. And yet I continue to live in a world the way a religious person lives in the world; I keep living in a world that I know to be enchanted, and not left alone. I doubt; I am uncertain; I am restless, prone to wander. And yet glimmers of holy keep interrupting my gaze.”

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Book:Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis

Source: Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis