DARKNESS AND LIGHT

hink of U2, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Depeche Mode, Alexander McQueen and Anselm Kiefer—the image that pops into your head is more than likely a photograph by Anton Corbijn. The Dutch photographer turned director of music videos and feature films established his signature moody black-and-white style while shooting for London’s and in the early 1980s, his artistic, austere, and above all effortlessly cool portraits, and later music videos, standing in stark contrast to the aesthetic excess of the decade. From it emerged the decades-long collaboration with U2