TWILIGHT: PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGORY CREWDSON

Crewdson is at the forefront of a movement in contemporary photography thathas abandoned realism in pursuit of pure cinematic fantasy." —The NewYork Times Magazine Twilight: in that zone between the certainty of day andfear of the dark, Gregory Crewdson sets his eerie, enigmatic photographs. Awoman floats in her flooded living room, a cow appears to have fallen fromthe sky onto a front lawn, a gang of teenagers, seemingly hypnotized, pileup household objects for a bonfire. Created as elaborately staged tableaux,this series of images suggests the bizarre yet beautiful surrealitiesbehind deceptively familiar suburban facades. Scheduled to accompany threesimultaneous gallery exhibitions in Spring 2002 and a subsequentretrospective at Mass MoCA, this book chronicles the completion of theTwilight series, which Crewdson began in 1998. Including both productionstills and the 40 finished images, all in full color, it also features anessay by Rick Moody, a novelist equally renowned for exposing theunderbelly of small-town, middle-class America.