Alone Street brings together two major bodies of work by Gregory Crewdson, Cathedral of the Pines (Aperture, 2016) and An Eclipse of Moths (Aperture, 2020), in a single, elegant, and affordable monograph. Both series expand on the artist-s obsessive exploration of the psychogeography of small-town, post-industrial New England and underscore the precision and depth of Crewdson-s unique mode of photographic storytelling. In each image, light, color, and carefully crafted scenography evoke the feeling that, as art historian Alexander Nemerov has astutely described, -all that ever happened in these places seems crystallized in his tableaux, as if the quiet melancholy of Crewdson-s scenes gathered the unruly sorrows and other little-guessed feelings of people long-gone who once stood on those spots.- In addition to the full set of images from each series, Alone Street, presents a selection of behind-the-scenes images and storyboards, revealing the extensive prepa
