Anton Corbijn - Star Trak

Anton Corbijn ushered in a new era in portrait photography for the rock and pop music scene with his atmospheric, often melancholic images. Here is a photographer who travels the world, tirelessly seeking to capture his idols in quiet moments and capture a trace of their essential being behind all the fame and glamour.
Most of Corbijn's photos, mainly taken in black and white with a handheld camera and without additional lighting, were taken in those quiet moments between performances. Out of reach of the bright spotlight, on the dark side of the star cult - literally and figuratively - Corbijn finds what interests him more than gesture, image or glamour: the unusual degree of privacy and closeness that makes his portraits true character studies
Corbijn has now gone beyond the boundaries of music photography and Star Trak reads like a visual encyclopedia of the icons of our culture, bringing together leading 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 in addition to the older rebels - such as Mick Jagger and Leonard Cohen - he takes on the enfants terribles of the eighties and nineties - Kurt Cobain , Billy Idol and Slash. Corbijn links the excesses of William S. Burroughs to the beauty of supermodels Naomi and Christy, and brings Salman Rushdie and Bono together in front of the camera.