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| U2&i Anton Corbijn |
€98.00 euros  |
416 pages
379 plates in colour and duotone
Schirmer/ Mosel, 2005
| This is a book that in a way needs to be seen for real rather than on a website, but I can honestly say that this book is the best book I have ever made and it is a very bold yet delicate piece of work I believe. As the title suggests, this is a collection of photographs I took of U2 over a period of 22 years and that is unique in itself. The book contains all the photos of the band you'd expect to find (all the well known shots of the Joshua Tree and Achtung Baby for instance), but also a lot of out-takes, private and random photos that are previously unseen. It is such a extra-ordinary relationship between U2 and myself that I decided to write, by hand, comments throughout the book to give the reader an insight of sorts. These comments are not gossip,they are at times informative and at times lightweight nonsense but you have to make your own way through it all. On top of this are other texts, specially written for this book, by Michael Stipe, Bill Clinton, Wim Wenders, Salman Rushdie, Paul Morley, Helena Christensen, William Gibson and a two way interview between Bono and myself, titled 'from B to A and back again'. This hardcover book comes in at 3 kg, is printed beautifully, is spaciously designed and is made with love. Please have a look at it if you can at a friends or at your local book store. |
| Stern Spezial FOTOGRAFIE Anton Corbijn |
93 pages
Stern, 2004
| Herbert Grönemeyer Anton Corbijn |
€19.80 euros |
160 pages
30 plates in colour and novatone
Schirmer/ Mosel, 2004
| his is essentially a book with herbert groenemeyer's own favorite lyrics accompanied by photographs i took of him over the last 15 years. the design is by walter schonauer who designed also the a.somebody book for me and the book is simple but very well put together. just like with the herman brood book and the new U2 book, it is so interesting to see photographs of someone over so many years. it is all in the german language of course. |
| Everybody Hurts Anton Corbijn |
Out of print
319 pages
147 plates in colour and novatone
Schirmer/ Mosel, 2003
| This is the catalogue for the two German exhibitions last year and originated by the Kestner Gesellschaft in Hanover. It is a retrospective and not put together by me but by the curator in Hanover and, just like the exhibition itself, was very successful. We only printed 6,000 copies and it has now completely sold out. It is a very thick book, well over 300 pages, but small, like a pocket book. I personally was very surprised how much i liked the book for its size and also for the colour pages inside and the content too. There are about 25 new images in this book (for instance the photos of the Chapman Brothers, Martin Gore and Missy Elliott) and the mix is really good with the oldest photo being from 1974 and the most current ones from this year. The title is of course used by permission from R.E.M. and handwritten by me! |
| a. somebody, strijen, holland Anton Corbijn |
€50.00 euros |
56 pages
43 plates in colour and black/white
Schirmer/ Mosel, 2002
| Perhaps my most personal work is in this book - it is definitely my most conceptual. I went back to where i was born, to the Dutch village of Strijen on the island Hoeksche Waard to shoot these photographs, which are all self portraits. My aim was to find out what had motivated me so much in my early years (my family moved from there when i was eleven) to become so obsessed with what i am doing these days. As far as i recalled there was no visual stimulation to speak of and the strict religious way of life in the village i had found oppressive. When i went back, i realized that all i had longed for as a young boy was to see the world beyond this island. It was the time that the Beatles played Holland and rockbands starting up everywhere and that world looked very exciting from my bedroom window in Strijen. This longing, combined with the religious view at life after death that i felt dominated my surroundings, made the basis for these photographs. In the self-portraits i am dressed like deceased musicians at various locations in the village. The locations show the environment i grew up in and might have influenced my early compositions. The choice of the 21 musicians, which i eventually photographed myself, was based on if they at any point in my life were of importance to me. The book is divided in two parts, which like the book design is quite biblical - one part with me in colour dressed up in the village and one part in b/w which are studio head+shoulder portraits of me made up as those musicians. You can see the despair of me wanting to be part of that exciting world much more - the despair of wanting to be somebody. It is both serious and fun to see me as hendrix, joplin, marley, lennon, bolan etc. |
| Herman Brood
Anton Corbijn |
€22.00 euros |
64 pages
48 plates in colour and novatone
text by Martin Bril and Anton Corbijn
Torch Books, 2002
| It was soon after i bought my first camera that i met HERMAN BROOD in 1974. Already then he was a legend of sorts and soon after he would become the greatest rock idol Holland had ever known and he holds that crown until this day, two years after his untimely death. We hooked up and started a long period of collaboration in the most basic sense: he posed and i photographed. This book shows the extend of us working together between 1974 and 2001. It is like a dairy with my handwritten comments accompanying the photographs and it takes us from small town dressing rooms in the Dutch provinces and train-toilets to Amsterdam, Antwerp and Berlin. It is a document like a proper rock document should be - it is done with love, has great content and is beautifully published. It was the kind of relation between subject and photographer that a photographer can only dream of and it was a situation i have been seeking with other artists ever since - to document their life and communicate this in an exciting way to the world. Herman always said that our relationship was a blueprint for my later work with U2 and he was spot on. The book was published to coincide with my exhibition on Herman in the Cobra Museum in Amstelveen in 2002 and was consequently only published in Holland. The text is in English though as an indication that Herman was bigger than Holland itself. |
| WERK Anton Corbijn |
Out of print
176 pages
182 plates in colour and novatone
Schirmer/ Mosel, 2000
| This is essentially the catalogue of the Groninger Museum show in 2000 and can be seen as a retrospective of my (first) 25 years as a photographer. It has different sections like black and white, polachrome, still lives and even has a special section dedicated to BONO in it which chronicles our 18 years of collaboration - a pretty unique situation and considering the flakiness of the musicworld it is an exceptional one. From the first photos in 1982 to now it shows Bono as he himself observed "a changing from innocence to experience." This book is basically full of photos with about 10% not yet published in other books. |
| strippinggirls Anton Corbijn Marlene Dumas |
€20.00 euros |
56 pages
Catalogue Anton Corbijn and Marlene Dumas 2000
| A catalogue of the museumshow in Amsterdam and Ghent of the work from Marlene Dumas (great Dutch painter who also has work in the Tate Modern) and myself on the subject of striptease. It is not a documentary or a comparison between the two artforms but just two people tackling the same subject in different ways. The way we operated was to always go together to meet and photograph the girls and then work it out in our own ways afterwards. All the work was done in Amsterdam between late 1998 and spring 2000. I have used three different methods of approach with 5 works for each direction and Marlene has 15 paintings in total as well. I enjoyed the collaboration enormously. |
| 33 Still Lives Anton Corbijn |
€25.00 euros |
80 pages 33 colour plates
Essay by Ulf Poschardt
Schirmer/ Mosel, 1999
| This is what I have called a ë fake documentary on celebrity í, and it features a lot of film stars. It was partly made as a reaction on celebrity photography in general and partly as way for myself to keep shooting celebrities interesting. I felt that the photography in this field had lost a sense of adventure and that everything was very purpose made. With so many outlets for this photography that is understandable as the demand on the starís time is incredible but the results have become clichÈs in general. My way out was to try to create a kind of filmstill in a paparazzi kind of way (obviously with people's permission) which gave me an incredible freedom for locations, actions and often characters that they could play. In contrast to my other books where I tried to get some insight into peoples character, this book deals with made up stories - it is all a lie, just like any other photograph of celebrities you see in magazines. All shot kind of random to avoid becoming too stylistic and perfect and all with a small flashlight. I wanted the photographs to have a colour feel but not to be full colour and I found this blue and red tone which gives the photographs a kind of faded look. The " 33 " in the title refers apart from the amount of photos in the book, to the numerical obsession that was paramount in 1999 when it was published - everyone was going crazy as Wallstreet (and equivalents) became the High street and there were numbers left right and centre with the millennium looming. It is also a beautiful number graphically, and myself, I was 44 then as I was born in í55. |
| Star Trak Anton Corbijn |
€60.00 euros |
144 pages
113 duotone and colour plates
Schirmer/ Mosel, 1996
| The subject choice has widened after Famouz - still celebrities but not just musicians : actors, directors, models, painters, writers and musicians. It covers my photographs from 1989 to 1996 and the title is a reference to the fact that I was actively trying to photograph certain people rather than waiting for assignments as was the case a lot with Famouz. It is a made up word (like famouz) indicating I was tracking the stars. Everything was shot on Hasselblad and after 15 years of 35 mm it was refreshing for me to look at different ways to make compositions. The tone of the photographs is brownish, but not without blacks. I have called it lithprints, really only because I didn't know what else to call it and as I was using lith developer it seemed logical. Also there are few full colour photos in this book which is an indication of the changes I was looking for after my b/w period. This book has become very successful which is great but it has meant that a few too many people have tried to emulate the technique and my way of shooting. So I changed the way my photos look with " 33 Still Lives ". |
| Famouz Photographs 1975-88 Anton Corbijn |
Out of print
148 pages
105 duotone plates
Schirmer/ Mosel
Originally published in 1989 (grey cover, title 1976-88)
with a quote from Dieter Meier
Re-published in 1997 (Bowie cover, title 1975-88)
with a preface by Bono.
| This is my first book and it was difficult to find a publisher who would let me release this book in a hardcover version only. I found a German publisher called Schirmer / Mosel who were open to my suggestions and are also known for their top notch quality printed books, so it was worth the search and I am still publishing with them. With an UK publisher it would have been something like book of the week at the Virgin Megastore in a softback and then I would have always stayed a ë rock í photographer, whereas now it is a photography book with photos of musicians. It is quite a difference. It is a collection of my photos from when I started till 1989 when it was published and contains images of places as well as musicians. It is the closed I came to documentary photography and it is all in black & white. Some of the pictures became very well-known (like Miles Davis, David Bowie, Captain Beefheart) and it is work that I still feel very close to and I feel that there is something in the photos that was special to the time. It is an era and an approach gone. It was all shot on 35mm b/w. The original had a grey cover and no names with the photographs. The USA edition of course had to have the names of all the artists underneath the photos. I changed four photos when we reprinted it as well and by including the picture of Sandy Denny I had to change the title to 1975 instead of 1976. It is currently in its fourth print run. |
| Allegro Anton Corbijn |
Out of print
112 pages
76 duotone and colour plates
Schirmer/ Mosel, 1991
| This is a small book with a variety of photographs in it - some fashion photography and some colour as well as about 30 pictures from Famouz and some new ones that found their way into Star Trak years later. It was the publishers wish to make Famouz into a paperback, and I didnít want it to exist that way, so we came to this agreement to have bits of Famouz in a small, cheaper book with additional new photographs. |
| Herbert Grönemeyer Anton Corbijn |
€14.00 euros |
Schirmer/ Mosel, 1993
| A book full of photographs of Germanyís biggest ever singer. You might also recognise him as an actor from the great war movie ë Das Boot í. I have worked (and still do) with him since 1988 and this is a collection of the photographs we shot in France, Spain, Portugal and Germany between 1988 and 1993. I have shot three record sleeves and made five videos with Herbert. |
| Strangers Depeche Mode Anton Corbijn |
Out of print
Introduction by Paul Morley
CPC Publishing, 1991
| A book of photographs of Depeche Mode, most of which were never seen before. It was shot partly in the West (California) and partly in the East (Prague) with additional shots from videos and concerts. It was a reflection of the enormous amount of work I had done with DM up till that point. |
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