“Turns out it was just a reflektor“
Dutch photographer, music video director and film director, Anton Corbijn, is no doubt familiar to many of you, as his is the name credited with capturing many fine images of David Bowie since 1980.
Anton first posted the rather enigmatic picture of David Bowie in our montage in celebration of Bowie’s birthday back on January 8th.
It was a strange shot that was hard to place. It seemed to be of Bowie circa 1975/76, but something wasn’t quite right. On closer inspection, the eyebrows looked a little odd and that hairline was just plain bizarre.
There was a clue in the picture credit: Anton Corbijn, Masker David Bowie, Montreal, 2013 © Anton Corbijn
It transpires that this was a mask of Bowie created for the rather surreal and quite brilliant Arcade Fire video from 2013, Reflektor.
As you no doubt remember, the James Murphy/Markus Dravs/Arcade Fire-produced track featured a brief guest vocal from Bowie. The video acknowledged Bowie’s presence in the closing scene, when Win Butler could be seen standing with Régine Chassagne, albeit unrecognisable as the band’s singer due to the fact that he was wearing aforementioned Bowie mask.
Anyway, you can have an even closer look at the photograph if you visit Anton Corbijn’s, 1-2-3-4 exhibition, at The Hague Museum of Photography in The Netherlands.
The exhibition runs from this Saturday, March 21 until June 21 2015 and you can read more about it and watch a rather cool video of Anton here.