The Look of Sherlock Season 3, E1:
Gregory Crewdson's Influence on Steve Lawes
Bells are going off for me b/c of course the diner scene is Hopper but that never seemed quite right to me. Hopper yes but something else I couldn’t put my finger on. Argh! What?! It’s Hopper but Hopper via Crewdson. It’s always something.
Give me an influence and watch me dance!!!
Crewdson’s photographs usually take place in small town America, but are dramatic and cinematic. They feature often disturbing, surreal events. The photographs are shot using a large crew and are elaborately staged and lighted. He has cited the films Vertigo, The Night of the Hunter, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Blue Velvet, and Safe as having influenced his style, as well as the painter Edward Hopper and photographer Diane Arbus.