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The visual history of pop music hasn't been the same since Anton Corbijn took to photographing musicians in the 70s and published the early works in his first book Famouz. In Star Trak he shows us what a great portrait photographer he is with musicians, writers, painters, directors, models, and actors. His atmospheric, often melancholic pictures have had an immense influence on portrait photography in the international media. He moves effortlessly between Pavarotti, William Burroughs and Steven Spielberg, between Bono, Isabella Rossellini and Neil Young, between Mick Jagger, Clint Eastwood and Jodie Foster, between Kate Moss, Kurt Cobain and Martin Scorsese, between Marianne Faithfull, John Lee Hooker and Bjork. Always taken on location and always with a different angle on what we think we know of the people who are shaping the spirit of our times. His friend Brian Eno wrote the introductory essay to this defining, inspiring, and mesmerizing book. No library descriptions found. |
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Taken primarily in black and white with a hand-held camera and without auxiliary lighting, most of Corbijn's photographs are shot in those quiet moments between performances. Beyond the reach of the glaring spotlights, on the dark side of the star cult - literally and metaphorically - Corbijn finds what interests him more than gesture, image or glamour: the unusual degree of privacy and closeness that turns his portraits into genuine character studies.
Corbijn has now moved beyond the boundaries of music photography and Star Trak reads like a visual encyclopedia of the icons of our culture, gathering together outstanding personalities from the worlds of film, literature, rock music and fashion. He visits film directors Wim Wenders, David Lynch, and Martin Scorsese, actors Johnny Depp, Gerard Depardieu and Jodie Foster, and alongside the older rebels - like Mick Jagger and Leonard Cohen - he includes the enfants terribles of the Eighties and Nineties - Kurt Cobain, Billy Idol, and Slash. Corbijn couples the excesses of William S. Burroughs with the beauty of supermodels Naomi and Christy, and brings Salman Rushdie and Bono together in front of the camera.