Gregory Crewdson: Alone Street
Published by Aperture, Alone Street brings together two major bodies of work by Gregory Crewdson—Cathedral of the Pines (2013–14) and An Eclipse of Moths (2018–19)—in a single monograph. Both series expand on the artist’s obsessive exploration of the psychogeography of postindustrial, small-town New England and underscore the precision and depth of his unique mode of photographic storytelling.
In each image, light, color, and carefully crafted scenography evoke the feeling that, as art historian Alexander Nemerov has astutely described, “all that ever happened in these places seems crystallized in his tableaux, as if the quiet melancholy of Crewdson’s scenes gathered the unruly sorrows and other little-guessed feelings of people long-gone who once stood on those spots.”
In addition to the full set of images from each series, Alone Street features an introduction by Joyce Carol Oates, a conversation between the artist and Cate Blanchett, and a selection of behind-the-scenes images and storyboards revealing the extensive preparation and planning that went into the making of each work.
Publisher: Aperture Foundation, New York
Publication date: 2021
Contributors: Cate Blanchett, Gregory Crewdson, Joyce Carol Oates
Designer: Duncan Whyte
Printer: Artron, China
Distributor: Ingram Publisher Services, La Vergne, Tennessee
Format: Cloth hardcover
Dimensions: 13 × 9 3/4 inches (33.2 × 24.8 cm)
Pages: 164
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-59711-513-1
