GREGORY CREWDSON: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS

Thursday August 9

(newportFILM OUTDOORS) sunset (approximately 8:00pm). photographer gregory crewdson & director ben shapiro will be in attendance - brought to you by kirby perkins construction
NEWPORT ART MUSEUM LAWN

“Crewdson often shoots at twilight, and the bewitching qualities of what TS Eliot called “the violet hour” fill almost every shot. ... He is a master of menace, melancholia and the macabre. He turns the American dream into a quiet nightmare.” — The Telegraph, UK

“I began to recognize Crewdson as one of those rare artists touched by vision; someone whose work truly disrupted my sense of the known.” — BOMB Magazine

“The production and artifice of Crewdson’s photographs recede and the viewer is lost in another world, remarkably drawn from the same matter as our own, but somehow both more and less than what we are accustomed to calling reality.” — Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“Crewdson’s colossal images—painterly from far off, vidcam-crisp close up—capture the exact quality of a memory: that mix of the ineffable and the specific that calcifies in a single detail. Feel waves of ardor crash over you, and hold your breath.” — ArtForum Magazine

“Crewdson is one of the most daring and inventive contemporary artists using photography. Crewdson is a genuinely important figure in today’s art world. He has an international reputation and has influenced an entire generation of younger photographic artists.” — Keith F. Davis, Curator of Photography at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Acclaimed photographer Gregory Crewdson doesn’t just “take” his images, he creates them, through elaborate days and weeks of invention, design, and set-up. The epic production of these movie-like images is both intensely personal and highly... read more

USA / 78 min

Director(s): Ben Shapiro

Cast: Gregory Crewdson

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(newportFILM OUTDOORS) donation of $5/person. photographer gregory crewdson & director ben shapiro will be in attendance. this is an outdoor event, rain contingency plan at the casino theater. bring a picnic. le petite gourmet & newport wine cellar support newportFILM! Grab a wine and cheese picnic for two at either location ($35) and 10% of your purchase price will benefit newportFILM's programs (please pre-purchase at 401-619-3966). Also, Ride your bike! Bike Newport will be providing a FREE Bike Valet Service. bring your reusable water bottle too! free water stations will be available. tallulah's taco stand will be selling their gourmet tacos!

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