Few photographers live up to the term "image-maker" as completely as Anton Corbijn. His photographs, as well known as the celebrities he has been shooting for the past twenty-five years, often reveal truths that surprise even his subjects - uncovering hidden aspects of their personalities, and imprinting them into our collective memory. Corbijn's images of rock stars, divas, actors, and supermodels are portraits that manage to combine decidedly unglamorous attitudes and poses with the undeniable star power of his subjects.
Corbijn himself not only chose all the pictures for this portfolio but also spent weeks brooding over the arrangement and sequence of the photos. It is a collection he says "shows the real Corbijn, not the famous celebrity photographer but a man taking pictures of his friends." Together, Corbijn's pictures are a paean to the artistic skills and visions that have made his subjects as famous as they are beloved.