Dutch photographer and filmmaker Anton Corbijn was awarded the prestigious Prince Bernhard Culture Fund award on Monday evening and promptly used the prize money of €75,000 ($100,000) to set up a fund of his own […]
Anton Corbijn is the latest director to be tapped for American Express’ Unstaged series. Corbijn will direct Coldplay and their performance will be broadcast live from Madrid, Spain. Coldplay will be webcasting their performance from […]
Photography fans with iPads get something special this week. The British Journal of Photography has launched its official iPad app. The best part? The first issue is free! Issue 1 is a whopping 400MB free […]
FOAM (Amsterdam Museum of Photography) is hosting the most recent photographic project of Anton Corbijn in an exhibition running until 1 September. Corbijn photographed some of his favourite artists like Gerhard Richter, Alexander McQueen, Richard […]
Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart died Friday. He was 69 and lived in Trinidad, Calif. The cause was complications of multiple sclerosis, said Gordon VeneKlasen, a partner at the Michael Werner gallery in New […]
Little White Lies, a UK movie magazine recently published a interview with Anton Corbijn. The photographer-turned-filmmaker talks about the the jump from photography to cinematography, the camera versus the cinema lens, and the career U-turn […]
As we reported last summer, Tom Waits and Anton Corbijn have enjoyed many rich years of collaboration and friendship. The long-awaited book collaboration between Anton Corbijn and singer-songwriter Tom Waits will finally be released in […]
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you damn well know Anton Corbijn is my favorite photographer. This world-renowned photographer and music video director has worked with everyone from U2, Nirvana, and Joy Division […]
Anton Corbijn’s been hard at work for months on his new film, The American. This is his first wide-release feature and stars George Clooney. The story centers around an assassin (Clooney) who hides out in […]
U.K. entertainment retailer HMV has issued a limited edition charity calendar featuring the stars of its “my inspiration” advertising campaign. HMV hopes to raise £20,000 ($33,100) for CLIC Sargent, the children’s and young person’s cancer […]
“Choosing the kind of lie you want to tell is actually the creative art of photography. And there are few better and more interesting liars than Anton.” – Brian Eno Bono, Michael Stipe, Brandon Flowers, […]
Anton Corbijn created some of the most iconic portraits, album covers and music videos of the last two decades. From the cover of U2’s The Joshua Tree to Nirvana’s “Heart-Shaped Box” video Corbijn has left […]
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