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Limited Edition Tom Waits Coffee Table Book Set For Release

by Music-News.com on January 17, 2013

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WAITS/CORBIJN ’77-’11, a collector’s edition linen slipcase book limited to 6,600 copies, is scheduled for release on 8th May.

Tom Waits

Tom Waits

The coffee table art book not only features over 200 pages of Waits’ portraits taken by Corbijn over four decades, but also includes over 50 pages of the first published collection of musings and photographs taken by Waits himself. The linen bound book has introductions written by film director Jim Jarmusch, and the long time music critic Robert Christgau.

WAITS/CORBIJN ’77-’11 is the chronicle of an artistic collaboration that reaches back more than 35 years, to those first black-and-white photographs of Tom Waits taken by a young Anton Corbijn in Holland in 1977.

Corbijn would go on to acclaim 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-also becoming a designer, a pioneer in music video and more recently, an award-winning director of feature films.

Photographs of Tom Waits by Anton Corbijn, photographs by Tom Waits of the vivid quotidian, stretching down through the years and presented for the first time in a beautiful clothbound book; side by side, these 226 images record one of the longest and most fruitful collaborations in the careers of both artists.

‘It’s rare’, Corbijn says, ‘to take photographs of someone over a 30+ year period. Our work together developed totally organically and that’s a beauty in itself. We are very serious about our work but when it comes to working together, we’re like children resisting maturity. It’s liberating and a much needed legal drug.’

Waits/Corbijn ’77-’11
Photographs by Anton Corbijn
Curiosities by Tom Waits
Texts by Jim Jarmusch and Robert Christgau
Limited edition of 6.600 w/slipcase
272 pages, 226 color and duotone plates

Waits/Corbijn ’77-’11 is now available for pre-order:
www.tomwaitsstore.com
www.schirmer-mosel.com

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