Line #100 Creator/AntonCorbijn


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3	Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard (born 20 May 1955) is a Dutch photographer, graphic designer, [[AlbumCoverDesigners album cover designer]] and film director, best known for his close association with rock artists (particularly associated with Music/{{U2}} and Music/DepecheMode), for whom he has become one of the most famous in his field. His work has been featured in magazines like ''Oor'', ''Magazine/RollingStone'', ''New Musical Express'',... and won many prizes over the years. It has been exhibited in art galleries and the man himself was also subject of a 2012 documentary.
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5	When you are a rock fan, you've probably been exposed to his work more often than you would expect. Many iconic photos of Herman Brood, Music/JoyDivision, Music/{{U2}}, Music/MilesDavis, Music/CaptainBeefheart, Music/BruceSpringsteen, Music/{{Bjork}}, Music/ElvisCostello, Music/SimpleMinds, Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}, Music/{{REM}}, Music/TheKillers, Music/{{Metallica}}, Music/NickCave, Music/SiouxsieAndTheBanshees, Music/TheCramps, and other bands that you're familiar with were taken by him. He also directed many famous music videos, including "Pride" and "One" (Music/{{U2}}), "Heartshaped Box" (Music/{{Nirvana}}), "Atmosphere" (Music/JoyDivision), "Headhunter" (Music/{{Front242}}), "Personal Jesus" (Music/DepecheMode) and designed the cover art of albums such as ''Music/AutomaticForThePeople'' by Music/{{REM}} and ''Music/TheJoshuaTree'' and ''Music/AchtungBaby'' by Music/{{U2}}.
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7	Since the 1990s Corbijn has also become notable as a film director, with ''Film/{{Control}}'' (2007), a {{Biopic}} about Ian Curtis from Music/JoyDivision as his most well known picture.
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9	!!Album cover designs:
10	* ''Greatest Hits'' (1978) - Music/SteelyDan.
11	* ''Psychedelic Jungle'' (1981) - Music/TheCramps.
12	* ''Music/IceCreamForCrow'' (1982) - Music/CaptainBeefheart: the photo of Beefheart on the cover is by Corbijn, the {{paintings}} are by Beefheart.
13	* ''Once Upon A Time'' (1985) - Music/SimpleMinds.
14	* ''Music/TheJoshuaTree'' (1987) - Music/{{U2}}.
15	* ''Echo & the Bunnymen'' (1987) - Music/EchoAndTheBunnymen.
16	* ''What's All This?'' (1988) - Herbert Grönemeyer.
17	* ''101'' (1989) - Music/DepecheMode.
18	* ''Music/{{Violator}}'' (1990) - Music/DepecheMode.
19	* ''Music/AchtungBaby'' (1991) - Music/{{U2}}.
20	* ''Music/AutomaticForThePeople'' (1992) - Music/{{REM}}.
21	* ''Music/SongsOfFaithAndDevotion'' (1993) - Music/DepecheMode.
22	* ''Songs of Faith and Devotion Live'' (1993) - Music/DepecheMode.
23	* ''Stripped'' (1994) - Music/{{The Rolling Stones\|Band}}.
24	* ''The Boatman's Call'' (1997) - Music/NickCave.
25	* ''Music/{{Ultra}}'' (1997) - Music/DepecheMode.
26	* ''Precious Burden'' (1998) - Music/SophieZelmani.
27	* ''Exciter'' (2001) - Music/DepecheMode.
28	* ''Love Affair'' (2003) - Music/SophieZelmani.
29	* ''Music/PlayingTheAngel'' (2005) - Music/DepecheMode.
30	* ''Sam's Town'' (2006) - Music/TheKillers.
31	* ''Sounds of the Universe'' (2009) - Music/DepecheMode.
32	* ''Henry's Dream'' (2009) - Music/NickCave.
33	* ''Music/CollapseIntoNow'' (2011) - Music/{{REM}}.
34	* ''Delta Machine'' (2013) - Music/DepecheMode.
35	* ''Spirit'' (2017) - Music/DepecheMode.
36	* ''Memento Mori'' (2023) - Music/DepecheMode.
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38	!!Music videos:
39	* Music/BryanAdams: "Do I Have To Say The Words", "Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?"
40	* Music/ArcadeFire: "Reflektor"
41	* Joseph Arthur: "Chemical", "In The Sun"
42	* Music/ArtOfNoise: "Beat Box"
43	* At The Drive In: "Invalid Litter Dept."
44	* Banderas: "May This Be Your Last Sorrow".
45	* Music/JohnnyCash: "Delia's Gone" (from "The American Recordings")
46	* Creator/NaomiCampbell: "Love & Tears"
47	* Music/NickCave: "Straight To You".
48	* Music/{{Coldplay}}: "Talk", "Viva La Vida"
49	* Music/{{Danzig}}: "Dirty Black Summer".
50	* Music/DepecheMode: "A Question Of Time", "Strangelove", "Pimpf", "Never Let Me Down Again", "Behind The Wheel", "Personal Jesus", "Enjoy the Silence", "Policy of Truth", "World In My Eyes", "Clean", "Halo", "I Feel You", "Walking In My Shoes", "Condemnation", "In Your Room", "Barrel Of A Gun", "It's No Good", "Useless", "Freelove", "Should Be Higher", "Where's The Revolution", "Ghosts Again".
51	* Music/EchoAndTheBunnymen: "Seven Seas", "Bring On The Dancing Horses", "Bedbugs and Ballyhoo", "Lips Like Sugar", "The Game", "Strangelove"
52	* Music/{{Front 242}}: "Welcome To Paradise", "Headhunter", Tragedy For You"
53	* Music/GoldenEarring: "Quiet Eyes"
54	* Herbert Grönemeyer: "Marie", "Bleibt Alles Anders", "Fanatisch", "Zum Meer"
55	* Garland Jeffreys: "Hail Hail Rock 'N' Roll"
56	* Music/JoyDivision: "Atmosphere"
57	* Music/TheKillers: "All These Things That I've Done"
58	* Ian [=McCulloch=]: "Faith And Healing", "Lover Lover Lover".
59	* Music/MercuryRev: "Goddess On A Hiway", "Opus 40"
60	* Music/{{Metallica}}: "Hero of the Day", "Mama Said"
61	* Music/JoniMitchell and Music/PeterGabriel: "My Secret Place".
62	* Music/{{Nirvana}}: "Heart-Shaped Box" (from ''Music/InUtero'')
63	* Palais Schaumburg: "Hockey".
64	* Per Gessle: "En händig man"
65	* Music/{{Propaganda}}: "Dr. Mabuse".
66	* Rainbirds: "Blueprint", "Sea Of Time", "White City Of Light", "Two Faces"
67	* Music/RedHotChiliPeppers: "My Friends"
68	* [[Music/HenryRollins Rollins Band]]: "Liar"
69	* Music/{{Roxette}}: "Stars", "Salvation"
70	* Music/DavidSylvian: "Red Guitar", "The Ink In the Well" (from ''Brilliant Trees'')
71	* Music/{{Travis}}: "Re-Offender".
72	* Music/{{U2}}: "Pride", "One", "Please"
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74	!!Films:
75	* "Devotional" (1993): a ConcertFilm about Music/DepecheMode.
76	* "Some Yo Yo Stuff" (1993): a short film where Music/CaptainBeefheart is interviewed, with a guest appearance by Creator/DavidLynch.
77	* ''Film/{{Control}}'' (2007): A {{Biopic}} about Ian Curtis of Music/JoyDivision.
78	* ''Linear'' (2009): A film about Music/{{U2}}, 57 minutes long with music from their album "No Line on the Horizon", while the band members stand still and objects around them move.
79	* ''Film/TheAmerican'' (2010): A thriller starring Creator/GeorgeClooney.
80	* ''Film/AMostWantedMan'' (2014): An espionage thriller based on the novel by Creator/JohnLeCarre of the same name, starring Creator/PhilipSeymourHoffman and Creator/WillemDafoe, among others.
81	* ''Depeche Mode Live in Berlin'' (2014): a ConcertFilm about Music/DepecheMode.
82	* ''Life'' (2015): A drama film based on the friendship between "Life Magazine" photographer Dennis Stock and Creator/JamesDean.
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84	!! Tropes associated with Anton Corbijn's work:
85	* TheCameo: Is the man introducing Depeche Mode in their video for "It's No Good".
86	* CelebrityCameo: When you look at books devoted to his art you see a veritable ''who is who?'' of rock stars who emerged since the 1970s until now.
87	* CrossingTheDesert: He seems to have a fascination with the Mojave Desert in California and Death Valley in Utah, as he both shot the covers of ''Music/IceCreamForCrow'', ''Music/TheJoshuaTree'' and the film "Some Yo Yo Stuff" there.
88	* DeliberatelyMonochrome: All his photographs are in black-and-white. ''Film/{{Control}}'' meanwhile was shot in color, but converted to black and white in post to match the photographs he took of Music/JoyDivision, the subject of the film, during their lifetime.
89	* DesignStudentsOrgasm: His photographs are striking images that show his subjects not only as ''cool rock stars'', but also as normal human beings.
90	* LeFilmArtistique: "Some Yo-Yo Stuff", where Music/CaptainBeefheart is interviewed in black-and-white imagery, while light and shadows pass by and the questions are written on a film projector. Also features shots of the Mojave Desert, a clip where a fish is seen travelling across the desert (shot while being held to a car window) and even a cameo of Creator/DavidLynch.
91	* TheFilmOfTheSong: ''Linear'' (2009), a 58-minute film, is effectively "The Film of the Album" of Music/{{U2}}'s ''No Line on the Horizon'' (2009), featuring 10 of the 11 songs from the album and one other song that was cut from the final album. Corbijn has insisted that the film is not an extended music video, but rather "a new way to listen to a record -- a new way to use film to connect to music," making it an example of this.
92	* OddFriendship: Corbijn was good friends with the normally ReclusiveArtist Music/CaptainBeefheart, an honor he only shared with Beefheart's other friends Music/PJHarvey and Creator/JohnPeel. In 1993 Corbijn made the first documentary about Beefheart: "Some Yo-Yo Stuff", a 13-minute black-and-white short film where Vliet is interviewed about various topics, while Corbijn provides artistically interesting shadow work and shots of the Mojave Desert.
93	* OutOfCharacterMoment: Despite being best known for photographing rock artists, Corbijn's design for Music/{{REM}}'s ''Music/AutomaticForThePeople'' is a more abstract design. His later films, from ''Film/TheAmerican'' on, have nothing whatsoever to do with rock stars at all.
94	* {{Rock}}: Best known for photographing rock stars and bands, though he has also photographed people from outside that genre, such as authors Creator/JohnLeCarre, Marlene Dumas, Creator/GoreVidal and Remco Campert, opera singer Music/LucianoPavarotti, cyclist Lance Armstrong, photo models Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell, activist Nelson Mandela, {{painters}} Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Gilbert & George, Anselm Kiefer, Lucian Freud, Karel Appel and Luc Tuymans and actors Creator/SeanPenn, Creator/ClintEastwood, Creator/RobertDeNiro and Creator/JohnnyDepp.
95	* SelfDeprecation: Corbijn has made a series of self-portraits over the years, where he dresses himself up as famous rock stars, including Music/BruceSpringsteen, Music/FrankZappa, Music/JohnLennon, Music/BobMarley,... It's clearly done as a joke, because he looks absolutely ridiculous.
96	* SeriesFauxnale: "In Your Room" was filled with call backs to Anton's earlier videos with Depeche Mode, because he believed at the time that Dave Gahan was going to die of a heroin overdose before they got a chance to make another album. Thankfully despite a near miss, Dave is now alive and clean of drugs.
97	* SignatureStyle: DeliberatelyMonochrome in his photos and music videos, along with fast film grain. Many of his Music/DepecheMode videos feature desert imagery.
98	* SixthRanger: To Music/DepecheMode, throughout their career. Beginning with 1986's "A Question of Time", he has directed dozens of music videos for them to the point where his DeliberatelyMonochrome style is almost as synonymous with them as it is with him.
99	* SkullForAHead: In 2011 he made a portrait of painter Damien Hirst where his eyes and teeth have the appearance of a skull.
100	* SmokingIsCool: Several photos show badass smoker poses of artists like Bono, Music/JohnHiatt, [[Music/JoyDivision Ian Curtis]], Music/KeithRichards, Music/NickCave,...
101	* WartsAndAll: Corbijn doesn't shy away from showing wrinkles, pores and other signs of old age in the faces and bodies of the rock artists he photographs.
102	* WholesomeCrossDresser: In 1996 he photographed Music/MickJagger in drag.

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