Anton Corbijn 33 Still Lives

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Summary: What did he want? He wanted to create something unique!
Review: 33 snapshots of stars from all over the world. Looks almost like paparazzi photos. After Star Trak this book couldn`t be anything else than a dissapointment for me but after studying the pictures more I have found qualities I have never seen in any picture ever before. And the more you look at them the more you get hypnotised by the atmosphere Anton creates in his pictures. He has done the job in 33 still lives too but it seems more like an experiment. If not anything else the pictures are unique. You have never seen anything else before. The photographs of Bjork, Kylie Minogue, Cameron Diaz and Ewan McGrgor are the pictures that inspires me mostly in my own work at this moment. The photographs are toned in baby blue and purple and this creates a spooky, almost claustofobic atmosphere. These pictures are not beautiful. They will maybe not be remembered as great photography, but they are UNIQUE. The thing really is that I have never seen anything like this ever before and as a photographer that is really hard in this world where everything looks like everything else.