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Once again, I have chosen a photography by Anton Corbijn - nevertheless, I think I can say without any doubt that he became my favourite long time ago. This take comes from the set of Depeche Mode music video, called Barrel of a Gun - which is also one of my favourite music videos of all times. 

Starting from the background - although it is blurry and unrecognisable I still can read the time the picture was made - I beleive it is a dawn, which gives the photography a special atmosphere and light. At that moment it is bright enough to enlighten the face (what gives it a stunning chiaroscuro) but dark enough to let the bulbs on the coat glow - and they keep enchaining my eyes. The coat and the gloves are very unusual choice themselves - although you could find them in many people's wardrobes, they seem surrealistic for the scene and the man. However, my cherished part of the picture are the eyes. As we can see they are closed tight, but make-up, faking the eyeballs, the iris and the pupil gives the illusion of a focused and interrogative look. Without that, the man would look cogitative, a bit hurtful, looking for a tranquility - the painting on his eyelids makes me think about a situation in which he cannot do that, he is not able to find the peace and forced to look, to see. This simple trick is very metaphorical itself and I think this is what I admire this picture most for.