Gregory Crewson was born on September 26, 1962. As an American photographer he is best know for his very unique, elaborate and surreal scenes of many homes and neighborhoods. His work is less like photographs and more like captured scenes from movies. In the mid 1980s Crewdson studied photography at SUNY Purchase, near Port Chester, NY. He went to Yale and got his Master of Fine Arts. He is currently a part of the faculty at Yale University since 1993. Much of Crewdson's photos have been displayed in many museums and collections are around the world. This photo is called. "Beneath the Roses." In one image a lone and pregnant woman stands on a wet street corner just before dawn: she is a small but a portentous still point in a world of trajectories. On a stormy night in another nondescript town, a man in a business suit stands beside his car, holding out a hand to the cleansing water in apparent mystification. In a plush bedroom, a man and a woman –prototypes of middle-class American dislocation–are visited by a songbird, who gazes at the woman from its perch on the vanity. Crewdson’s scenes are tangibly atmospheric: visually alluring and often deeply disquieting. Never anchored precisely in time or place, these and the other narratives of "Beneath the Roses" are rather located in the dystopic landscape of the anxious American imagination.
