Matt Mahurin
# 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.

## 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
