Photographer Gregory Crewdson, Who Influences Moody TV Dramas, Debuts New Gagosian Show
Tim Ives, the director of photography of Stranger Things, has said that the nighttime photography of Gregory Crewdson has “inspired me with its heightened reality.” Eric Messerschmidt, the DP of Mindhunter and a former assistant of Crewdson’s, has stated that the artist’s work “lives right on the edge between reality and surrealism.” A number of observers have noted that the look of Ozark can often feel like a Crewsdon photo. And Dark co-creator Jantje Friese has said that the landscape of the show was partly inspired by Crewdson’s oeuvre: “He does this photography of suburbia where you have these really wide shots where, for example, you have a person standing naked with a suitcase, and you have no idea what’s happening.