New York photographer Gregory Crewdson makes impressive photography works about American myths, showing the downside of American dream thanks to the surrealism touch.

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Crewdson builds elaborate sets for his photography to take pictures that are foreboding and with extraordinary detail.  Each photo is the result of work of a whole team of decorators, light engineers, extras. Usually so much effort is done to shoot a movie. In this case it is all done to make just one shot which tells the whole story and bears a mystery.

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The images are frozen in time and there’s no before or after. It gives a viewer a possibility to imagine and to expand this “movie” in their minds. Crewdson has made that his unique strength.

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Gregory Crewdson

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The process of shooting

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