INSPIRATION: I fell in love with Anton Corbijns work in my teens, picking up the NME and Face magazine his images blasted their way into me. I plasted the torn sheets from the papers and magzines covering my bedroom walls. Vibrant, intimate, challenging images of my music heros, David Bowie, Tom Waits, Joy Division, U2, Depeche Mode - his work stepped easily from the music world into fashion and into film - His images remained true. Gritty. Real. Seductive. His collection of images of David Bowies portrayal of The Elephant Man remain deep within me, my all time favourites. . Corbijn started his career of music photographer when he saw the Dutch musician Herman Brood playing in a café in Groningen around 1975. He took a lot of photos of the rising star Herman Brood & His Wild Romance. Because of the pictures taken by Corbijn, Broods fame rose quickly, and as a result Corbijns own exposure increased. Corbijn has photographed Joy Division, Depeche Mode, Tom Waits, Prāta Vētra, David Bowie, Peter Hammill, Miles Davis, Björk, Captain Beefheart, Kim Wilde, Robert De Niro, Stephen Hawking, Elvis Costello, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Morrissey, Peter Murphy, Simple Minds, Clint Eastwood, The Cramps, Roxette and Herbert Grönemeyer, amongst others. Perhaps his most famous, and longest standing, association is with U2, having taken pictures of the band on their first US tour, as well as taking pictures for their Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby albums (et al.) and directing a number of accompanying videos. From the late 70s the London based NME, (New Musical Express), a weekly music paper, featured his work on a regular basis and would often feature a photograph of his as the front page. One such an occasion was a portrait of David Bowie back stage in New York at his play The Elephant Man in nothing more than a loin cloth. In the early years of London based The Face, a glossy monthly post-punk life style / music magazine, Anton Corbijn was a regular contributor. He made his name working only in black and white. In May 1989 he began taking pictures in colour using filters: his first try was done for Siouxsie Sioux.[16] Between 1998 through 2000, in collaboration with the painter Marlene Dumas, he worked on a project called Stripping Girls, which took the strip clubs and peep shows of Amsterdam as their subject;[17] while Corbijn later exhibited photographs, Dumas took Polaroids which she then used as sources for her paintings. Corbijn has photographed album covers for U2, working with sleeve designer Steve Averill and Peter Hammill, Depeche Mode, The Creatures (the second band of Siouxsie Sioux), Nick Cave, Bryan Adams, Metallica, Therapy?, The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, The Killers, Simple Minds, R.E.M., The Bee Gees, Saybia and Moke.
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 06:20:02 +0000
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