Anton Corbijn

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Anton Corbijn at the Berlinale 2012
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Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willensward (born May 20, 1955 in Strijen , Netherlands ) is a Dutch photographer and film director .

Life

Corbijn was born on May 20, 1955, the son of the pastor of Strijen . In an interview he confessed that he was “deeply Protestant”. “I admire people like my father who orient themselves towards Christian moral teaching.” Corbijn describes his photography as “Protestant”. At the age of nineteen he became a freelance photographer. He became known for his photos of pop artists and other celebrities. The first photo that was printed of him in a music magazine comes from the appearance of the band Solution at the "Grote Markt" in Groningen in 1972. Hardly any of the greats from the rock and pop scene was not in front of his camera, from Tom Waits to the Rolling Stones to U2 , from Bon Jovi to Frank Sinatra , from Bryan Adams to Luciano Pavarotti and, last but not least, Joy Division .

In addition, many record covers are by Corbijn, for example from U2 (e.g. The Joshua Tree , Rattle and Hum , Achtung Baby ), Depeche Mode (e.g. Violator , Songs of Faith and Devotion , Ultra ), Nick Cave , Bee Gees , Metallica , Therapy? , Mansun , Travis , James Last and Herbert Grönemeyer . The collaboration with Grönemeyer came about because he and Corbijn were neighbors in London, their adopted home.

Corbijn has directed numerous music videos . He received an MTV Award in 1994 for the video for Heart Shaped Box by the US rock band Nirvana .

Corbijn is closely associated with the bands Depeche Mode and U2. He has accompanied both bands as art director for many years . His entire photographic work with U2 in the book Corbijn early 2005, U2 & I published. For Depeche Mode, in addition to the majority of the music videos since A Question of Time 1986, he shot the concert films Devotional (1993) (which was nominated for a Grammy ), One Night in Paris (2001) and Live in Berlin (2014), SPiRiTS IN THE FOREST (2019) and LiVE SPiRiTS (which was released in 2020 as a box set by Spirits in the Forest). The stage sets for the tours since 1993 are also by Corbijn.

Corbijn was also responsible for the election campaign of Dutch Prime Minister Wim Kok in 1998.

On January 10, 2008, Corbijn's first feature film Control , which tells the story of Ian Curtis , the singer of the band Joy Division , was shown in German cinemas, for which Corbijn won the TV Feature Film Prize on September 28, 2007 at the Cologne Conference received.

In 2012 he was appointed to the competition jury of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival . From autumn 2012, Corbijn made another feature film with A Most Wanted Man , the film adaptation of the novel Marionettes by John le Carré . Parts of the recordings were made in Hamburg in November 2012 . Corbijn lives with his partner Nimi Ponnodurai in The Hague.

Filmography

cinemamovies

Music videos

  • "Hockey" - Palais Schaumburg (1983)
  • "Beat Box" - Art of Noise (1984)
  • "Dr. Mabuse "- Propaganda (1984)
  • "Red Guitar" - David Sylvian (1984)
  • "Seven Seas" - Echo & the Bunnymen (1984)
  • "The Ink in the Well" - David Sylvian (1984)
  • " Pride (In the Name of Love) " (third version) - U2 (1984)
  • "Bring on the Dancing Horses" - Echo & the Bunnymen (1985)
  • "Quiet Eyes" - Golden Earring (1986)
  • "A Question of Time" - Depeche Mode (1986)
  • "Bedbugs and Ballyhoo" - Echo & the Bunnymen (1987)
  • "Strangelove" - ​​Depeche Mode (1987)
  • "Pimpf" - Depeche Mode (1987)
  • "The Game" - Echo & the Bunnymen (1987)
  • " Never Let Me Down Again " - Depeche Mode (1987)
  • "Lips Like Sugar" (first version) - Echo & the Bunnymen (1987)
  • "Behind the Wheel" - Depeche Mode (1987)
  • "Welcome to Paradise" - Front 242
  • "My Secret Place" - Joni Mitchell & Peter Gabriel (1988)
  • "Blueprint" - Rainbirds (1988)
  • "Atmosphere" - Joy Division (1988)
  • "Headhunter" - Front 242 (1988)
  • "Faith and Healing" - Ian McCulloch (1989)
  • "Sea of ​​Time" - Rainbirds (1989)
  • "White City of Light" - Rainbirds (1989)
  • " Personal Jesus " - Depeche Mode (1989)
  • "Killer Wolf" - Danzig (1990)
  • " Enjoy the Silence " (first version) - Depeche Mode (1990)
  • "Policy of Truth" - Depeche Mode (1990)
  • "World in My Eyes" - Depeche Mode (1990)
  • "May This Be Your Last Sorrow" - Banderas (1990)
  • "Clean" - Depeche Mode (1991)
  • "Marie" - Herbert Grönemeyer (1991)
  • "Two Faces" - Rainbirds (1991)
  • "Tragedy (For You)" - Front 242 (1991)
  • "Halo" - Depeche Mode (1991)
  • "Front by Front" - Front 242 (1992)
  • "Hail Hail Rock 'n' Roll" - Garland Jeffreys (1992)
  • "Lover Lover Lover" - Ian McCulloch (1992)
  • " One " (original version) - U2 (1992)
  • "Straight to You" - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (1992)
  • "Dirty Black Summer" - Danzig (1992)
  • "Do I Have to Say the Words?" - Bryan Adams (1992)
  • "I Feel You" - Depeche Mode (1993)
  • "Walking in My Shoes" - Depeche Mode (1993)
  • "Condemnation" (first version) - Depeche Mode (1993)
  • " Heart-Shaped Box " - Nirvana (1993), MTV Video Music Award as " Best Alternative Video "
  • "Delia's Gone" - Johnny Cash (1994)
  • "Mockingbirds" - Grant Lee Buffalo (1994)
  • "In Your Room" - Depeche Mode (1994)
  • "Liar" - Henry Rollins (1994)
  • "Love & Tears" - Naomi Campbell (1994)
  • "Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?" - Bryan Adams (1995)
  • "My Friends" (first version) - Red Hot Chili Peppers (1995)
  • "Hero of the Day" - Metallica (1996)
  • "Mama Said" - Metallica (1996)
  • "Barrel of a Gun" - Depeche Mode (1997)
  • "It's No Good" - Depeche Mode (1997)
  • "Useless" - Depeche Mode (1997)
  • "Please" (first version) - U2 (1997)
  • "Everything stays different" - Herbert Grönemeyer (1998)
  • "Fanatical" - Herbert Grönemeyer (1998)
  • "Goddess on a Hiway" - (second version), Mercury Rev (1998)
  • "Salvation" - Roxette (1999)
  • "Opus 40" (first version) - Mercury Rev (1999)
  • "Stars" - Roxette (1999)
  • "Chemical" (first version) - Joseph Arthur (2000)
  • "In the Sun" - Joseph Arthur (2000)
  • "Invalid Litter Dept." - At the Drive-In (2001)
  • "Freelove" (second version) - Depeche Mode (2001)
  • " Human " - Herbert Grönemeyer (2002)
  • "Electrical Storm" - U2 (2002)
  • "Re-Offender" - Travis (2003)
  • "To the Sea" - Herbert Grönemeyer (2003)
  • "All These Things That I've Done" (second version) - The Killers (2005)
  • "Talk" - Coldplay (2005)
  • "Suffer Well" - Depeche Mode (2006)
  • " Viva la Vida " (second version) - Coldplay (2008)
  • "Should Be Higher" - Depeche Mode (2013)
  • "Reflector" - Arcade Fire (2013)
  • "Where's the Revolution" - Depeche Mode (2017)

Publications

Exhibitions

Documentary film

  • 2012 Anton Corbijn Inside Out .

Awards

Web links

Commons : Anton Corbijn  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Andreas Platthaus , What drives you to the painters, Mr. Corbijn? In conversation: Anton Corbijn. In: FAZ No. 100, April 28, 2012, p. Z6.
  2. ↑ Klara Trautner: A moving Corbijn - Anton Corbijn in an interview. volume.at, accessed on August 19, 2012.
  3. ↑ Achim Manthey: From the front, from the back, from the side: Star portraits by Anton Corbijn in Munich. Kultur-vollzug.de, accessed on August 19, 2012.
  4. ↑ Cologne Conference : Prize Winners 2007 cologne-conference.de, accessed on August 19, 2012.
  5. ↑ http://www.dn.se/kultur-noje/konst-form/pa-jakt-efter-det-icke-perfekta
  6. ^ Documentary: Anton Corbijn - Shooting Stars. Online ( Memento from December 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ https://www.buceriuskunstforum.de/ausstellungen/anton-corbijn-the-living-and-the-dead/
  8. ↑ Official German film website
  9. ↑ rp-online.de (Rheinische Post): Successful approach to photo artist Anton Corbijn
personal data
SURNAME Corbijn, Anton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Willensward, Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch photographer and film director
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Strijen , the Netherlands