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Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard (; born 20 May 1955) is a Dutch photographer, film director, and music video director. He is the creative director behind the visual output of
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and U2,Pitman, Joanna
"The silent partner"
''The Times'', 14 February 2005. Retrieved 9 July 2009
Mackintosh, Hamish
"Talk Time: Anton Corbijn"
''The Guardian'', 31 March 2005. Retrieved 9 July 2009
having handled the principal promotion and sleeve photography for both bands over three decades. His music videos include Depeche Mode's " Enjoy the Silence" (1990), U2's "
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" (version 1) (1991),
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' " Do I Have to Say the Words?",
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's " Heart-Shaped Box" (1993), Travis's " Re-Offender" (2003) and
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's " Talk" (2005). He directed the films " Viva la Vida" (2008); the
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biographical film '' Control'' (2007),Zacharek, Stephanie
"Closer to Joy"
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'', 10 October 2007. Retrieved 9 July 2009
'' The American'' (2010); '' A Most Wanted Man'' (2014), based on
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's 2008 novel of the same name; and ''
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'' (2015), after the friendship between ''
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'' magazine photographer Dennis Stock and James Dean.


Early life and family

Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard was born on 20 May 1955 in Strijen in the Netherlands, where his father had been appointed as
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to the
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the previous year. His father, Anton Corbijn van Willenswaard (1917–2007), took up the same position in Hoogland (1966) and
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(1972), moving his wife and four children with him. His mother, Marietje Groeneboer (1925–2011), was a nurse and was raised in a parson's family. Photographer and director Maarten Corbijn (born 1960) is a younger brother. Grandfather Anton Johannes (Corbijn) van Willenswaard (1886–1959) was an art teacher at Christian schools in
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and an active member in the local Dutch Reformed Church in Hilversum.


Photography

Corbijn began his career as a music photographer when he saw the Dutch musician Herman Brood playing in a café in
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around 1975. He took a lot of photographs of the band Herman Brood & His Wild Romance and these led to a rise in fame for Brood and in exposure for Corbijn. From the late 1970s the London-based ''
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'' (NME), a weekly music paper, featured his work on a regular basis and would often have a photograph by him on the front page. One such occasion was a portrait of
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wearing a loincloth backstage in New York when starring in ''
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''. In the early years of London-based '' The Face'', a glossy monthly post-punk life style / music magazine, Corbijn was a regular contributor. He made his name photographing in black-and-white but in May 1989 he began taking pictures in colour using filters. His first venture in this medium was for Siouxsie Sioux. Between 1998 and 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; while Corbijn later exhibited photographs, Dumas took Polaroids which she then used as sources for her paintings. Corbijn has photographed
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, amongst others. Perhaps his most famous and longest standing associations are with
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and U2. Corbijn's work relationship with Depeche Mode began with the filming of a music video for their 1986 single " A Question of Time". Corbijn says that he soon "started to realise that isvisuals and their music went really well together. Then edid some live photos, and it eventually turned into designing the whole live set. That's what
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been doing for them since 1993." Corbijn has directed over 20 of the band's music videos, the most recent of his works being 2024's " Before We Drown". He has also designed most of the covers for Depeche Mode's albums and singles from 1990's '' Violator'' album and onwards. Corbijn's work with U2 includes taking pictures of the band on their first US tour, taking pictures for their albums ''
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'', and directing a number of accompanying videos. Other album covers featuring work by Corbijn include those for Springsteen,
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, Siouxsie's second band
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and Moke.


Film directing

Corbijn began his music video directing career when
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asked him to direct a video. After seeing the resulting video for "Hockey", the band
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had Corbijn direct "Dr. Mabuse". After that he directed videos for
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,
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and U2. His first video in colour was made for U2 in 1984 for their single "
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". In 2005 Palm Pictures released a DVD collection of Corbijn's music video output as part of the Director's Label series. In 1994 Corbijn directed a short film about Captain Beefheart/Don Van Vliet for the
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called ''Some Yoyo Stuff''. He made his feature film debut with '' Control'', a film about the life of Joy Division frontman
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. It premiered to rave reviews at the
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on 17 May 2007.Sandhu, Sukhdev
"Film review: Ian Curtis biopic, Control"
''The Daily Telegraph'', 5 October 2007. Retrieved 9 July 2009
Robb, Stephen
"Critics applaud Joy Division film"
BBC (News), 17 May 2007. Retrieved 9 July 2009
The film is based on Deborah Curtis' book '' Touching from a Distance'' about her husband and the biography ''Torn Apart'' by Lindsay Reade (
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's ex-wife) and Mick Middles. Although shown outside the
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competition, ''Control'' was the big winner of the Director's Fortnight winning the CICAE Art & Essai prize for best film, the "Regards Jeunes" Prize award for best first or second directed feature film and the Europa Cinemas Label prize for best European film in the sidebar. It also received a special mention for the
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prize for best debut feature film.Crerar, Simon
"Joy Division film wins five awards"
''The Times'', 29 November 2007. Retrieved 9 July 2009
In addition, the film also won the Michael Powell award for best new British feature at the
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. In 2010, Corbijn returned as a director with the character-based thriller '' The American'', starring George Clooney. On 26 October 2011, Corbijn directed a
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by
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from the Plaza de Toros de Las Ventas in Madrid, Spain. His film '' A Most Wanted Man'' was released in 2014. The
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novel of the same name, which is loosely based on the true War on Terror story of
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, was set in part in
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, as parts of the film were. In February 2014, he started filming his next project ''
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'' about
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and photographer Dennis Stock. On 23 and 25 July 2018, Corbijn filmed the last two concerts of
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's Global Spirit Tour at the
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in
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. Some of this footage, intertwined with the stories of six life-long fans in the audience, became the film '' Spirits in the Forest'', which was released in theaters worldwide on 21 November 2019. In Corbijn's interview with ''
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'' he spoke about the origins behind the idea of this film and said that they (him and Depeche Mode) "decided to look at the reason for why Depeche Mode was still growing... they're the biggest cult band in the world. It's unbelievable." He further adds that "it's in the DNA of epeche Modeto have these connection to their fans... there's something unusual about it and the fans go to great lengths", which inspired him to make the film in the style that he did.


Appearances

Author
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refers to a fictitious portrait by Corbijn of the character Hollis Henry in his 2007 novel '' Spook Country''.Giese, Rachel
"Present tense"
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 2 October 2007. Retrieved 9 July 2009
A Corbijn photograph has served as the author's portrait on many of Gibson's books, including ''
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''. Corbijn is the subject of Josh Whiteman's 2009 documentary film ''Shadow Play: The Making of Anton Corbijn''. In May 2011, Corbijn presented ''Mandela Landscape'', an artwork consisting of Corbijn's portrait of
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stitched by Dutch textile artist Berend Strik. Both the original work and 80 signed art prints were sold to fund the international edition of ''ZAM Magazine'', an independent platform of African talent. On 19 December 2011, Corbijn was announced as being on the jury for the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, held in February 2012. At this occasion, the Berlinale Special screened the documentary ''Anton Corbijn Inside Out'' (directed by Klaartje Quirijns) at the
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.


Filmography


Music videos


Films


Bibliography

* ''Famouz'' (1989) * ''Strangers'' (1990) * ''Allegro'' (1991) * ''Grönemeyer, Photographien von Anton Corbijn'' (1993) * ''Star Trak'' (1996) * ''33 Still Lives'' (1999) * ''Stripping Girls'' (2000, with Marlene Dumas) * ''Werk'' (2000) * ''A. Somebody, Strijen, Holland'' (2002) * ''Everybody Hurts'' (2003) * ''U2 & I'' (2005) * ''In Control'' (2008). Schirmer/Mosel. * ''Inside The American'' (2010). Schirmer/Mosel . * ''Inwards and Onwards.'' (2011) Schirmer/Mosel . * ''Waits/Corbijn '77–'11.'' (2013). Schirmer/Mosel Verlag . * ''Looking at A Most Wanted Man'' (2014). Mosel Verlag . * ''The Making of Miss Dior'' (2015) * '' 1-2-3-4'' (2015) * ''Hollands Deep'' (2015) * ''MOOD/MODE'' (2020) * '' Depeche Mode by Anton Corbijn'' (2020, limited edition; 2021)


References


External links


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