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    Anton Corbijn

    Anton Corbijn, born 1955 in Strijen, discovered photography though his love for music while still at high school in Holland. He used his father’s camera for his first photos at an open-air concert in 1972. He soon moved from stage photography to portrait photography, initially only portraits of musicians. Anton moved to London in 1979 to follow his love of music and is today widely regarded as one of the most influential photographers both in the world of music and in the world of portraiture photograph. An autodidact, he has changed his approach to photography a few times over the years but kept relatively close to his first subject matter: artists in general and specifically musicians. Some of his most well known photographs feature: Tom Waits, David Bowie, Kurt Cobain, Ian Curtis, Clint Eastwood, Bryan Adams, Cameron Diaz, Miles Davis, Frank Sinatra, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Joni Mitchell, Robert De Niro, Gerhard Richter, Ai Weiwei, Lucian Freud … and he is considered to be the ‘house’ photographer of U2 for almost 40 years and for Depeche Mode for almost as long. Anton Corbijn has been working in film and video with some of the musicians he photographed and was in 1983 one of the first still photographers to direct music videos. He has since made approximately 80 music videos; for among others U2, Depeche Mode, Nirvana, Metallica, Nick Cave, Johnny Cash, Arcade Fire, Coldplay and The Killers. In 1993 he also directed a short film with and about Don Van Vliet a.k.a. Captain Beefheart, called “Some Yo Yo Stuff”. His music video work is highly acclaimed and has won him an MTV award for Nirvana’s “Heart Shaped Box”, a CADS (Creative and Design Awards) award for “outstanding achievement” for his oeuvre in 2005 and a Golden Frog in Lodz in 2007 for his outstanding contribution to music videos. He was the first director ever to be given this award in that category. A Directors series DVD was released by Palm Pictures in 2005. Since 1990, apart from wor

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