Waits/Corbine '77 - '11

The coffee table book "Waits/Corbijn '77 - '11" is a tribute to an artistic collaboration that began more than 35 years ago, with the first black-and-white photographs of Tom Waits taken by a young and virtually unknown Anton Corbijn in the Netherlands in 1977. Corbijn would gain fame for his iconic, enigmatic portraits of musicians and other artists - from U2 and Miles Davis to Robert De Niro and Clint Eastwood to Damien Hirst and Gerhard Richter - and also became a pioneer of music videos and more recently an award-winning director of feature films.

By 1977, Tom Waits was already known worldwide for a series of stunning, timeless albums filled with songs about a noir-tinged Los Angeles that owed as much to writers like John Fante and Jack Kerouac as they did to the jazz, blues and tin-pan alley that Waits had inherited from childhood. Waits was at the forefront of his collaboration with Kathleen Brennan - leading to such milestones as Rain Dogs and Mule Variations - his film work with Francis Ford Coppola and Jim Jarmusch, among others, and his theater projects with legendary director Robert Wilson.

So in those first photographs lie the seeds of these two intertwined careers, feeding off each other. Waits' vivid personality helped Corbijn define his narrative, cinematic style of still photography: images that made it feel as if you were caught in the middle of an unfolding drama. In turn, Corbijn helped Waits develop his visual style into a new theatrical self-image that matched beautifully with the experimental music he made with Brennan. And led him to his own photography, collected here for the first time under the title "Curiosities," a visual guide to the artistic intelligence that millions of fans know only through his music. Photographs of Tom Waits by Anton Corbijn, photographs by Tom Waits of vivid everyday life, through the years, and presented for the first time in a beautiful linen-covered book; these 226 images side by side are a record of one of the longest and most fruitful collaborations in the careers of both artists.

Specifications
Title: Waits/Corbine '77 - '11
Author: Robert Christgau, Jim Jarmusch
Publisher: Schirmer Mosel
Size: 215 x 140 x 27 mm
Size: 272 pages
Language: English
Material: Hardcover
ISBN: 9783791393254

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