Corbijn's Birthday

Anton Corbijn can be congratulated on both his sixtieth birthday today and on the prolongation of the exposition 1-2-3-4!

The exhibition is now set to run until 16 August 2015, but 21 June is the deadline for anyone who also wants to catch HOLLANDS DEEP in the Photo Museum and  Municipal Museum in The Hague.

Corbijn began his career as a music photographer when he saw the Dutch musician Herman Brood playing in a café in Groningen around 1975. He took a lot of photographs of the band Herman Brood & His Wild Romance and these led to a rise in fame for Brood and in exposure for Corbijn.

More Wiki on Anton.

Anton Johannes Gerrit Corbijn van Willenswaard  born 20 May 1955) is a Dutch photographer, music video editor, and film director. He is the creative director behind the visual output of bands like Depeche Mode and U2 having handled the principal promotion and sleeve photography for both bands for almost three decades. Some of his works include music videos for Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence" (1990), U2's "One" (version 1) (1991), Bryan Adams' "Do I Have to Say the Words? and Nirvana's "Heart-Shaped Box" (1993), as well as the Ian Curtis biographical film Control (2007),[5] The American (2010), and A Most Wanted Man (2014), based on John le Carré's 2008 novel of the same name.

ps. my birthday hommage features a photo made bij Anton himself (of course)