Bruce Springsteen’s photo was taken during a shoot for his 2005 album, Devils and Dust and pop artist Richard Prince was photographed against his infamous ‘Nurses’ series. Most interestingly, is the Iggy Pop posing nude in Central Park, which Corbijn believes resembles a painting most of all his works, this second time around. His Gerard Richter painting consequently deals directly with the world of painting—a world that has always interested him: “My grandfather was a painter, and my father was a minister of religion.” Sculptor, and German painter Anselm Kiefer is seen against a surrealist architectural backdrop, and painter Lucian Freud—admired for his “strength” in the photo, too elucidates such receptivity.
