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Gregory Crewdson’s images belong to the postmodern (or pictures generation) era. He references cinema, classical painting, literature, theatricality and film within each image. Crewdson’s technique involves using a large format camera, performing actors and taking several exposures layered together to create an exaggerated drama which triggers the viewer’s emotion. Lighting rigs, props, artificial rain and dry ice add a cinematic quality to the image. The images suspend time and use contemporary and mundane situations packed with hidden social references. Crewdson asks the viewer to speculate on the outcome, enabling the viewer to look at the image for longer than they would normally look at an image or film frame. Twilight- book published (2002) exhibited at the V&A (2006). “I have always been fascinated by the poetic condition of twilight. By its transformation quality. Its power of turning the ordinary into something magical and other worldly. My wish is for the ...