Phoebe Bridgers announced her first solo tour since 2023 in early June with a photograph shot by fine-art photographer Gregory Crewdson—the artist behind those ethereal, David Lynch-meets-Edward Hopper suburban landscapes. The image shows Bridgers as a small, mysterious figure behind the wheel of a vintage turquoise car on a desolate small-town street. The sky is a cosmic swirl of blue and pink. A beam of light shoots out from an old clapboard house.
This was not a quick shoot. According to Rolling Stone's exclusive interview with Crewdson, the photographer brought roughly 50 crew members, five cranes for lighting and equipment, and got the local fire department to spray down the street. They shot over two days in Adams, Massachusetts in March.
"I have to feel connected to the work," Crewdson, 63, told Rolling Stone. "There was an alliance there, with a sense of mystery and loneliness... It's a coming together between Phoebe's world and my world."
Everything in the image is analog. The eerie light beam comes from an actual xenon lamp—the old-school kind no longer in common use. "It would be so easy to do that with AI or digital effects, but we made that," Crewdson says. A phone booth appears in the background, a nod to Bridgers' upcoming smartphone-free tour.
