The fashion world through the lens of Anton Corbijn. From December 22, 2023 to May 12, 2024, more than 200 fashion-related photos by this leading photographer and filmmaker can be seen in the Cobra Museum for Modern Art in Amstelveen.
In the exhibition MOØDe Anton Corbijn (Strijen, 1955) presents photos from his extensive oeuvre (between 1979 – 2023) in which he explores the crossover between portrait photography and the fashion world. Corbijn embraces the terms 'mood' and 'fashion' in the broadest sense. The exhibition also includes portraits that Corbijn made of, among others, Kate Moss, Tom Waits, Alexander McQueen and Naomi Campbell.
Corbijn is an admirer of fashion photographers such as Irving Penn, Nick Knight, Peter Lindbergh, Paolo Roversi and Helmut Newton. While these photographers usually take portraits in addition to fashion photos, with Corbijn it is the other way around: he is a portrait photographer who occasionally visits the fashion world.
"I mainly photograph personalities, but fashion is becoming more and more part of it. We all make a decision in the morning about what to wear, even if it is
only a hat or a black T-shirt. Fashion isn't always spelled with capital letters." —Anton Corbijn
Corbijn's photos, with their trademark high contrast and special light, grab you and hold your attention. Just like his special compositions and creative way of photographing. He considers himself a hybrid of a classic portrait photographer and a documentary photographer who captures people in their own environment and circumstances.
He drew inspiration for the dramatic effects he creates in his photos from the unruly documentary photography of, among others, Ed van der Elsken, Robert Frank and Koen Wessing. Every time Corbijn manages to surprise and captivate the viewer with his exceptional view of people and musicians in particular.
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As visual director behind the British band Depeche Mode and through his decades-long collaboration with the Irish rock band U2 and the American singer Tom Waits, he has left a mark on how we view an important piece of contemporary culture.
In addition to being a photographer, Corbijn has been a well-known director for years who received international recognition for his music videos and feature films. Corbijn is currently making a new film Switzerland, starring British actress Helen Mirren as Patricia Highsmith.
The beautiful English-language publication MOØDe contains almost 200 photographs from Corbijn's exhibition of the same name and an essay by Karen Van Godtsenhoven, associate curator of The Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
MOØDe -Anton Corbijn
December 22, 2023 – May 12, 2024
Cobra Museum
