Anton Corbijn

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.