Over a period of two months in the summer of 1996 Gregory Crewdson obsessively photographed fireflies. Part of his attraction to the fireflies was the ”impossibility
of capturing their elusive beauty.”
The photographs for Fireflies were taken in Beckett Massachusetts near Crewdson’s family cabin using both small and medium format cameras. Gregory Crewdson has fond childhood memories of time at his family’s cabin where his Fireflies series was photographed and spends time there recharging between projects.
The firefly series by Crewdson was photographed without the use of artificial light and in small format, both departures from the majority of his work and of his more well-known pieces, and is unique among his body of work for its unproduced format.
In 2006 Gregory Crewdson’s Fireflies collection was exhibited November 8th through December 20th at Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, NY. Sixty-one of the firefly images were compiled to create the photographic book Fireflies published in 2007. Today a first edition copy of the book sells for $190 to upwards of $500
The photographs for Fireflies were taken in Beckett Massachusetts near Crewdson’s family cabin using both small and medium format cameras. Gregory Crewdson has fond childhood memories of time at his family’s cabin where his Fireflies series was photographed and spends time there recharging between projects.
The firefly series by Crewdson was photographed without the use of artificial light and in small format, both departures from the majority of his work and of his more well-known pieces, and is unique among his body of work for its unproduced format.
In 2006 Gregory Crewdson’s Fireflies collection was exhibited November 8th through December 20th at Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, NY. Sixty-one of the firefly images were compiled to create the photographic book Fireflies published in 2007. Today a first edition copy of the book sells for $190 to upwards of $500
Fireflies are visually and emotionally inspirational. Austin Kleon, a poet from Austin Texas, “wrote” his blackout poem “Fireflies” in April of 2008. It is interesting how much his poem resembles the image (above) by Gregory Crewdson.