Anton Corbijn’s career continues to be an interesting career, forged in the same sort of improvised chaos that gave the world Hipgnosis. All that shabby creativity.
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The art form of the LP sleeve barely registers any more. Often the most amusing talking head in a music documentary, Noel Gallagher turns up to tell an anecdote about his daughter. It seems the Oasis man mentioned he’d been at a meeting discussing album covers and she had no idea what he was talking about. Gallagher had to point at the little square next to a track on her smartphone.
“The new generation chooses comfort over quality time after time,” he says. “Whether it’s about records or magazines. You now have magazines on the internet, but I like going through them by hand. But, you know, it’s all about comfort.”“I know, I know,” Corbijn says, laughing. “With Joshua Tree, I really pushed for having a tree – this tree – in the photograph,” he says. “I liked that tree. I liked the shape of it.had never heard of it. During the shoot, I told him about it. I told him I had this landscape camera. ‘We maybe have the tree on the front and it folds to you on the back.’ That didn’t happen in itself. But then we started looking for a Joshua tree. Steven Averill designed for U2. I just tried to make great pictures and maybe think a little about the cover.
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