Art Everyday

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On Sunday Ian and I went to the National Gallery of Art's screening of the documentary Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters.  Before seeing the film, I was unfamiliar with Crewdson's work and I was blown away by his process. Crewdson uses actual locations and residents of three small Massachusetts towns, as well as elaborately staged sound sets to achieve his incredible hyperrealistic photographs.  If you see the film pop up on Netflix, it's worth watching.  Check out the trailer here.  You can also listen to an NPR interview with the artist here.  In the introduction to the interview the NPR reporter says that Crewdson "doesn't take photographs, he makes them," which seems very apt.