Photo: Gregory Crewdson, from the series “Beneath the Roses”, 2005/2006

 

In the series “Beneath the Roses”, photographer Gregory Crewdson stages the idyllic American suburb with a sense of melancholic tranquility.

The National Museum of Photography is hosting an exhibition by the American photographer Gregory Crewdson. The exhibition contains three of Crewdson’s series, each of them carried out in a beautiful but solitary imagery.
In the series “Beneath the Roses”, the ideals of the American family are portrayed with an almost cinematic composition of scenery and characters – characters loaded with a claustrophobic sense of yearning and desire. The desire is equally obvious in the black and white series “Fireflies”, where Crewdson is able to create a feeling of peaceful yet tense desire with the light from the mating ritual of fireflies.
In the third series of the exhibition “Sanctuary”, Crewdson has been to the Italian village Cincittà and documented the abandoned movie sets with a unique beauty.

 

Exhibition:
The National Museum of Photography
Søren Kierkegaards Plads 1
DK – 1016 Copenhagen
23.09.11 – 28.01.12
Mon – Sat: 10 am – 7 pm

 

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