ANTON CORBIJN

Anton Corbijn - Dutch photographer music video and film director. 

The visual history of popular music hasn’t been the same since A. Corbijn took a path to photographing musicians. Recently barrowed book introduced me not only with his work but open for me complete new spectre to people I already know. 

My first and mine theme for my Diploma is to capture perfect portrait of my daughter but in complete different setting with complete different meaning. That’s how I understand A.Corbijn`s work is about. If you look through his photographs with all celebrity’s .. they just an ordinary people, natural, open, without any mask what our society always try to put.

My biggest fear always is that I'll photograph an idea rather than a person... So I try to be quite sensitive to how people are. Anton Corbijn

A.Corbijn atmospheric, often melancholy black and white pictures have had an immense influence on portrait photography in the international media. A glittering spectrum of great names combining the two elements – the creative energy of the people decisively involved in shaping the spirit of our times, and Corbijin`s eye – seeing through pose, image and glamour.

A.Corbijin uses a Leica and a Hasselblad, preferring film to digital.

 ~“For a good picture, I don’t need all that information….Striving towards perfection, but not getting there is how I like photography to be.”~

One of his interviews Corbjin admit that the main process is kept lively by shooting handhold, moving as he goes and accepting that not everything will be perfectly lit or even exactly in focus. But he’s a “freak” for accuracy at the developing stage, ensuring the grain of the print is pin-sharp. 

 ~“Somehow within that framework you can get imperfect pictures but they work perfectly,” he says.~

And as you can see they are. Whether it was chance or not that led Anton Corbijn into a photographic career it seems Corbijn’s distinctive photographic style has been shaped by his desire to portray reality as it really is. 

 

  

 

 

A.Corbijn’s pictures these normally unapproachable celebrities pose as the world has never seen them before- cold, vulnerable, gentle and sentimental all at the same time – in a romantic spirit that is photographers own signature.

In Corbijns photos, his subjects seem distracted- pictured as serious people, caught in quiet moments, far removed from their high- powered stage personas. Given the choice, Corbijn would almost always shoot a subject outside of a studio in available light, even if it’s against a plain white wall. The main strength of his pictures is the mood and feel he get out of the people that he meet.

After all those articles, photographs, what is so inspiring, just one wish, to do, to shoot, but probably never even close to be such a work, but with all what we got  all chances is ours.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Corbijn 

http://www.corbijn.co.uk/
http://www.fanpop.com/spots/anton-corbijn/images/6860823/title/other-photo
http://www.corbijn.co.uk/frameset_photo.htm
http://www.corbijn.co.uk/
http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/profile/2036693/shadowplay-interview-anton-corbijn
http://www.schirmer-mosel.com/corbijn/