“Yes, I like to think they were pre-punk and we were post-punk,” he says of Hipgnosis.įor all that, Corbijn’s affection for the men behind the company and for the work they did is evident throughout Squaring the Circle.
Later, he became court photographer for our own U2. His photographs of Joy Division in the music press helped define that band’s austere aesthetic. “They did all the covers for what we saw as the dinosaur rock bands,” he says.Ĭorbijn, the Dutch photographer who documented the British music world from the late 1970s, could be seen – though he wouldn’t put it that way himself – as a fellow traveller with Matlock and his barbarian hordes. The final act of Anton Corbijn’s excellent documentary on Hipgnosis, the design house that produced LP sleeves for the likes of Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin, begins with Glen Matlock, sometime bassist with the Sex Pistols, guiltily admitting that, when he first arrived, that company counted among the enemy.
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