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Twilight: Photographs by Gregory Crewdson
Twilight: Photographs by Gregory Crewdson
Author: Rick Moody
Creator: Gregory Crewdson
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Category: Book

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 18 reviews
Sales Rank: 43358

Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.5
Dimensions (in): 11.7 x 10.1 x 0.8

ISBN: 0810910039
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.092
EAN: 9780810910034
ASIN: 0810910039

Publication Date: May 1, 2002
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
"Crewdson is at the forefront of a movement in contemporary photography that has abandoned realism in pursuit of pure cinematic fantasy."The New York Times Magazine

Twilight: in that zone between the certainty of day and fear of the dark, Gregory Crewdson sets his eerie, enigmatic photographs. A woman floats in her flooded living room, a cow appears to have fallen from the sky onto a front lawn, a gang of teenagers, seemingly hypnotized, pile up household objects for a bonfire. Created as elaborately staged tableaux, this series of images suggests the bizarre yet beautiful surrealities behind deceptively familiar suburban facades. Scheduled to accompany three simultaneous gallery exhibitions in Spring 2002 and a subsequent retrospective at Mass MoCA, this book chronicles the completion of the Twilight series, which Crewdson began in 1998. Including both production stills and the 40 finished images, all in full color, it also features an essay by Rick Moody, a novelist equally renowned for exposing the underbelly of small-town, middle-class America.


Customer Reviews:   Read 13 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars DO NOT BUY FINE ART BOOKS FROM AMAZON!!   April 21, 2008
 0 out of 1 found this review helpful

The book is fantastic! However to my horror it was packed very badly and the book arrived scratched and a damaged. Amazon expects me to pay for all shipping costs to get a refund of the book value only. Since I live in Australia the return shipping would surpass the value of the books sent. I emailed Amazon with this issue 2 weeks ago and NO REPLY!


DO NOT BUY FINE ART BOOKS FROM AMAZON!!



5 out of 5 stars Gorgeuos   November 17, 2006
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

I love this book, its so inspiring. The title "twilight" is a time of the day when things seem real but at the same time they dont. The thing I love is that the illustrations look like photographs in a way, which is the piont their trying to make.


3 out of 5 stars Wolves, school buses, pregnant women, and flowers   October 23, 2006
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

These photos are 'quiet' but intriguing. The lightings in these photos are amazing. Sometimes it is hard to believe that these are photos and not drawings.

I personally like photos/movies shot under low budget -- and these settings were certainly not cheap -- but if you don't mind that, this is good book to have.



5 out of 5 stars inspired work   August 8, 2006
 3 out of 4 found this review helpful

While Gregory Crewdson may be the most overhyped, overpaid photography around today, he is also a master of this type of color, creative, fictive scene. This work is deliberate, deep, and strange, and includes a good essay by Rick Moody. It is a modern masterwork, for sure, and while Crewdson's retrospective book "1985-2005" is average at best, this cohesive body of work is well worth the price.


5 out of 5 stars These photographs are considered, not contrived.   May 28, 2006
 1 out of 1 found this review helpful


I can't believe another reviewer called this book contrived and insincere. That is absolutely ridiculous. This collection of work is quite sincerely attached to feelings of strangeness and otherness in everyday life. If you think those feelings are shallow and relegated to teenagers (and I find it very insulting that someone spoke of teens that way), then it's a sad, sad world.

It is mysterious and strange and wonderful. Everyone can appreciate that.


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