Gregory Crewdson Biography

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Gregory Crewdson is an American photographer. His photographs feature elaborately staged, surreal scenes of small town and suburban American life. Crewdson was born in Park Slope, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. As a child, he spent a long time in a cottage, which is in the suburb of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Many of his earlier works were set in there. During his teenage years, Crewdson was a member of punk band The Speedies. Their hit song, Let Me Take Your Photo, was used in a Hewllet Packard advertisement in 2005. His father was a psychoanalyst, who always working at home. As a teenager, he used to listen in through the floorboards to his father, when his father was working with his patients. As Crewdson told

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