Matt Mahurin

Matt Mahurin (Santa Cruz, 31 gennaio 1959) è un illustratore, fotografo e regista statunitense; i suoi lavori sono stati utilizzati da riviste quali TIME, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Esquire, Forbes e The New York Times.

Matt Mahurin

Biografia

Mahurin opera principalmente come fotografo, ma è molto attivo anche come regista nel campo dei video musicali, avendo lavorato negli anni con U2, Def Leppard, Queensrÿche, Metallica, Tracy Chapman, Tom Waits, R.E.M., Alice in Chains e molti altri artisti popolari.

Riconoscimenti

• Film e videoclip
  • Eastman Kodak Award for Lifetime Achievement – MPVA Music Video Awards (2004)
  • Best American Independent Feature – Hamptons International Film Festival, for Mugshot (1996)
  • MTV Video Music Award for Best Post-Modern Video, Orange Crush dei R.E.M. (1989)
• Fotografie e illustrazioni
  • Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards for Magazine Photography "Cover Photograph of the year" & "Cutting Edge Photo Illustration" (1998)
  • Art Directors Club, Merit Award for Feature Spread Illustration published by The Village Voice, "Unsafe: Why Gay Men Are Having Risky Sex" (1996)

Videografia

• 10,000 Maniacs — "What's the Matter Here?" (1987)
• Alice in Chains — "Angry Chair" (1992)
• Alice in Chains — "No Excuses" (1994)
• Better Than Ezra — "Rosealia" (1995)
• Body Count — "There Goes The Neighborhood" (1992)
• Bon Jovi — "Hey God" (1996)
• Bonnie Raitt — "Something To Talk About" (1991)
• Blind Melon — "Dear Ol' Dad" (1993)
• Bush — "Everything Zen" (1994)
• Bush — "Little Things" (1995)
• Tracy Chapman — "Fast Car" (1988)
• Cher — "Save Up All Your Tears" (1991)
• Cowboy Junkies — "Sweet Jane" (1991)
• Def Leppard — "Stand Up (Kick Love into Motion)" (1993)
• Def Leppard — "All I Want Is Everything" (1996)
• Disturbed — "Sound of Silence" (2015)
• Melissa Etheridge — "Happy Xmas (War Is Over)" (1994)
• John Fogerty — "Eye of the Zombie" (1986)
• Peter Gabriel — "Mercy Street" (1986)
• Peter Gabriel — "Red Rain" (1986)
• Peter Gabriel — "Come Talk to Me" (1993)
• Corey Glover — "April Rain" (1998)
• Hole — "Gold Dust Woman" (1996)

• Donna Lewis — "Without Love" (1996)
• Sarah McLachlan — "Building a Mystery" (1997) (uncredited)
• Metallica — "The Unforgiven" (1991)
• Metallica — "King Nothing" (1996)
• Metallica — "The Unforgiven II" (1998)
• Mötley Crüe — "Primal Scream" (1991)
• Mötley Crüe — "Home Sweet Home '91" (1991)
• Peter Murphy — "The Scarlet Thing in You" (1995)
• New Kids on the Block — "If You Go Away" (1992)
• Our Lady Peace — "Clumsy" (1998)
• Martin Page — "In the House of Stone and Light" (1994)
• Queensrÿche — "Empire" (1990)
• Queensrÿche — "Best I Can" (1990)
• Queensrÿche — "Silent Lucidity" (1990)
• Queensrÿche — "Another Rainy Night (Without You)" (1991)
• R.E.M. — "Orange Crush" (1988)
• Rush — "The Pass" (1989)
• Lou Reed — "What's Good" (1992)

• Lou Reed — "Hookywooky" (1996)
• Scorpions — "Alien Nation" (1993)
• Silversun Pickups — "The Royal We" (2010)
• Skid Row — "My Enemy" (1995)
• Skid Row — "Into Another" (1995)
• Soraya — "Suddenly" (1996)
• Soul Asylum — "Misery" (1995)
• Soundgarden — "Outshined" (1991)
• Soundgarden — "The Day I Tried to Live" (1994)
• Sting — "Gabriel's Message" (1987)
• The Black Crowes — "She Talks to Angels" (1991)
• Therapy? — "Die Laughing" (1994)
• Tom Waits — "Hold On" (1999)
• Tom Waits — "What's He Building" (1999)
• Tom Waits — "Hell Broke Luce" (2011)
• U2 — "Love Is Blindness" (1993)
• Ugly Kid Joe — "Cat's in the Cradle" (1993)
• Ugly Kid Joe — "Busy Bee" (1993)
• Urge Overkill — "Take a Walk" (1993)
• Paul Westerberg — "Runaway Wind" (1993)

Fotografo

• The BoDeans — Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams copertina, 1986
• Tracy Chapman — Tracy Chapman copertina, 1988
• The Ramones — Brain Drain, copertina, 1989
• Ozzy Osbourne — No More Tears, copertina, 1991
• Joe Satriani — The Extremist, copertina, 1992
• Marilyn Manson — Rolling Stone, copertina, gennaio 1998
• Tom Waits — Mule Variations, copertina, 2000
• Tom Waits — Alice, copertina, 2002
• Joan as Policewoman— To Survive, copertina, 2008
• Muse — Drones, copertina, 2015

Collegamenti esterni

• (EN) Bibliografia di Matt Mahurin, su Internet Speculative Fiction Database, Al von Ruff.
• (EN) Matt Mahurin, su AllMusic, All Media Network.
• (EN) Matt Mahurin, su IMDb, IMDb.com.
• (EN) Matt Mahurin, su AllMovie, All Media Network.