Anton Corbijn

Anton Corbijn was born 1955 BirthStrijen, Hoekse Waard, Netherlands.

Anton Corbijn has "a reluctance to impose" on his subjects that they admire, "a way of making you feel that you wouldn’t mind experimentally making an arse of yourself—because he doesn’t either," says Brian Eno, whose eerie portrait is one of the more arresting images in this collection of Corbijn’s work.

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Corbijn (1955) became well-known because of his photos of jazz and pop musicians. Three phases can be distinguished when considering his oeuvre. At the moment he is in his third phase. The atmospheric, often melancholy black and white photos that mark his begin period have had an immense influence on the international portrait photography. Apart from being fascinated by music, Corbijn is also greatly interested in film, literature and fashion. The celebrities of this era have been brought together in one oeuvre. The portraits from the series "Star Trak," part of Corbijn’s second phase, are less factual than his earlier photos…

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Anton Corbijn books documents of contemporary art

Lucian Freud. "I paint people," Freud has said, "not because of what they are like, not exactly in spite of what they are like, but how they happen to be."

100 Contemporary Artists ...works by pioneering artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Marlene Dumas, Damien Hirst, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Albert Oehlen, Richard Prince, Charles Ray, Cindy Sherman, and Christopher Wool alongside outstanding artists of a younger generation like Glenn Brown, Natalie Djurberg, Tom Friedman, Mark Grotjahn, or Terence Koh.

Parkett Special edition: Artists' Editions for Parkett: 200 Art Works 25 Years.

Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture. Published in conjunction with the opening of the new Saatchi Gallery in London, one of today’s most important institutions collecting and exhibiting contemporary art, this mammoth book is the most comprehensive volume on contemporary sculpture.

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