Matt Mahurin

Matthew S. Mahurin (born January 31, 1959) is an American illustrator, photographer and film director. Mahurin's illustrations appear in ''Time'', ''Newsweek'', ''Mother Jones'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''Esquire'', ''Forbes'', and ''The New York Times''.

Mahurin's work as a photo essayist has dealt with subjects such as homelessness, people with AIDS, the Texas prison system, abortion clinics, Nicaragua, Haiti, and Belfast. His extensive work directing music videos since 1986 have resulted in working with U2, Queensrÿche, Metallica, Dreams So Real, Jaye Muller (J.), Tracy Chapman, Tom Waits, R.E.M., Alice In Chains, Def Leppard and many other popular music performers.

Photographs by Mahurin, including ''Clemmons Prison, Texas'' (1985), ''Texas Prison'' (1988), ''Woman's Face in Darkness'' (1989) and ''Paris'' (1984), are included in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Mahurin has a reputation for photographing himself and manipulating his own likeness in his commercial photo-illustration work. Examples of his own image appearing on magazine covers are the November 29, 1993 cover of ''Time'', with Mahurin as Sigmund Freud, the March 14, 1994 cover of ''Time'', with himself as a caveman and the May 17, 2004 ''Time'' cover where Mahurin posed and photographed himself as an Abu Ghraib prisoner.

Mahurin is also credited with a notorious ''Time'' cover of O. J. Simpson, featuring an altered mugshot which removed the photograph's color saturation (inadvertently making Simpson's skin darker), burned the corners, and reduced the size of the prisoner ID number. This appeared on newsstands next to an unaltered copy on the cover of ''Newsweek'', which occasioned some controversy over photo manipulation.

Awards

Film and video
*Eastman Kodak Award for Lifetime Achievement - Music Video Production Association Award (2003)
*Best American Independent Feature - Hamptons International Film Festival, for Mugshot (1996)
*MTV Video Music Award for Best Post-Modern Video, ''Orange Crush'' by R.E.M. (1989)
Photography and Photo-Illustration
*Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards for Magazine Photography "Cover Photograph of the year" for January 1997 cover of ''Rolling Stone'' of Marilyn Manson, and "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)

Filmography

Feature films

Director
*''Feel'' (2006)
*''I Like Killing Flies'' (2003)
*''Mugshot'' (1996)

Photographs
*Siesta (1987)

Short films

Director
*''The Reality of Hunger in New York City'' (2008)
*''H2 Uh-Oh'' (2007)

Television

Director
*''Imagining America'' "Tribe" (segment)
*Alive TV "Hammer" (segment)

Videography

Director

*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)
*The Black Crowes — "She Talks to Angels" (1991)
*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 — " The Sound of Silence" (2015)
*Dreams So Real — "Rough Night In Jericho" (1988)
*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)
*Ghost — "Call Me Little Sunshine" (2022)
*Corey Glover — "April Rain" (1998)
*Inspiral Carpets — "Generations" (1992)
*Hole — "Gold Dust Woman" (1996)
*INXS with Ray Charles — " Please (You Got That...)" (1993)
*Donna Lewis — "Without Love" (1996)
*Marilyn Manson — "We Are Chaos" (2020)
*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)
*Mystery Skulls — "Erase Me" (2017)
* 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)
*Queensrÿche — "Bridge" (1995)
*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)
*Sturgill Simpson — "Brace for Impact (Live a Little)" (2016)
*Sturgill Simpson — "Breakers Roar" (2016)
*Sturgill Simpson — "All Around You" (2017)
* Sundays, The — "Love" (1992)
*Tears for Fears — "The Tipping Point" (2021)
*Therapy? — "Die Laughing" (1994)
*Tom Waits — "Hold On" (1999)
*Tom Waits — "What's He Building" (1999)
*Tom Waits — "Hell Broke Luce" (2011)
* U2 — "With or Without You" ersion 1(1987)
* U2 — "Love Is Blindness" (1993)
* U2 — " Song for Someone" (2015)
*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)

Photography credits

*BoDeans — ''Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams'' cover, 1986
*Tracy Chapman — ''Tracy Chapman'' cover, 1988
*Ramones — '' Brain Drain'', cover, 1989
*Ozzy Osbourne — ''No More Tears'', cover, 1991
*Joe Satriani — ''The Extremist'' cover, 1992
*Marilyn Manson — ''Rolling Stone'' cover, January 1998 issue''Rolling Stone'' cover, January 1998 issue
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*Tom Waits — ''Mule Variations'' cover, 2000
*Tom Waits — '' Alice'', cover and concept, 2002
*Joan as Police Woman— ''To Survive'' cover, 2008
*Muse — '' Drones'' cover, 2015
* Fool In The Box — '' Fool In The Box III'' cover, 2018

Bibliography

cover art
*''The Doctor and the Soul'' — Book on Logotherapy by Dr. Viktor E. Frankl, cover, 1985 edition
photography books
*''Matt Mahurin'' ()
*''Japan and America'' ()
illustrated by for children
*''My Beautiful Child'' ()
*''Once Upon a Cloud'' ()

References

External links

Personal web site
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MM
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Archives for licensing
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ProFile Stock

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mahurin, Matt
1959 births
Living people
American music video directors
American illustrators
American photographers
Moorpark College alumni
People from Santa Cruz, California
Film directors from California