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Jean-Baptiste Mondino

Jean-Baptiste Mondino

French photographer and music video director


Jean-Baptiste Mondino (born Aubervilliers, France on 21 July 1949) is a French fashion photographer[1] and music video director. He has directed music videos for Madonna, David Bowie, Sting, Björk, Don Henley, Neneh Cherry, Axel Bauer and Les Rita Mitsouko.[2] Mondino has also photographed the covers and album packaging for the Marianne Faithfull albums Before The Poison (2005) and Easy Come, Easy Go (2008), Shakespear's Sister's Hormonally Yours (1992), Alain Bashung's Osez Joséphine (1991), Chatterton (1994), Mylène Farmer's Désobéissance (2018), J.'s We Are the Majority (1992) and Prince's Lovesexy (1988). He also designed the titles for the Anglo-French TV music show Rapido.[3][4][5][6]

The video for Don Henley's "The Boys of Summer", which Mondino directed,[7] swept the MTV Video Music Awards in 1985, winning "Best Video", "Best Direction", "Best Art Direction" and "Best Cinematography". This video paired him with compatriot cinematographer, Pascal Lebègue, with whom he would later shoot several other notable music videos in black and white, such as "Russians" for Sting and "Justify My Love" for Madonna.

Music video filmography

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References

  1. "Jean-Baptiste Mondino". MVDBase.com (person). ASG. 1998–2017. Retrieved January 28, 2017.
  2. Credits Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine for the "Boys of Summer" video.

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