Waits' Curiosities from the limited edition photo and musings book WAITS/CORBIJN '77 - '11, out now.

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Check out US, UK and European press and photos for Waits/Corbijn photo and curiosities book out tomorrow, May 8th.

La Repubblica, Italy


“Una Vita Con Waits”

Tom Waits ha 64 anni, compiuti
il 7 dicembre, ma potrebbe
averne 102 o 21, non
farebbe tanta differenza. Lo
scorrere del tempo, il cambiare
delle stagioni e delle
mode non lo riguardano: la
musica che crea, le canzoni
che canta, gli strumenti che
suona, non hanno alcuna relazione
con l’oggi. E non si tratta di snobismo, non è
un rifiuto della modernità tecnologicamente intesa, o
di un rapporto completo con la contemporaneità.

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de Volkskrant, Netherlands

Een luxury item noemt Tom Waits het boek dat hij en Anton Corbijn hebben samengesteld, de in een gelimiteerde oplage van 6.600 exemplaren verschijnende vrucht van hun ruim 35-jarige samenweking Wait/Corbijn '77-'11. Corbijn achter de fotocamera, Waits ervoor. Maar het boek is meer dan luxe: een monument van en voor twee eigengereide creatieve geesten met een talent dat zich meer uitkristalliseert naarmate ze het graf dichter naderen - om het in Waits' zwartgallig ironische woorden te zeggen.

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DeMorgen Magazine, Belgium

Eén kwade genius die een andere
fotografeert. Meer is er niet nodig
voor een sublime boek. Anton
Corbijn meets Tom Waits: 33 jaar
vriendschap in machtige foto’s

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London Sunday Times Magazine, UK

Back in the grim but glorious days of 1978, a young Dutch photographer named Anton Corbijn arrived in Los Angeles. It was his first trip to America. He took a taxi to the Tropicana Motel on Santa Monica Boulevard. Stepping out of the cab, he found Tom Waits sitting on the sidewalk.
“It was,” he recalls, savouring the memory, “a Hollywood dream come true.”
He shouldn’t have been surprised. The Tropicana, now sadly gone, was to LA what the Chelsea Hotel was and is to New York — rock’n’roll central. There’s no point in listing the people who stayed there because everybody stayed there. Tom was a permanent resident; he lived in a bungalow round the back.

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Aftenposten K, Norway

Tom Waits og fotograf Anton Corbijn
har hengt sammen siden de traff hverandre
på The Tropicana Motel i Los Angeles i 1976.
Resultatet av vennskapet er nå blitt til en tykk
fotobok, hvor også Waits’ egne bilder er
inkludert.– Et dokument over både Antons og
min karrière, det var ideen, sier Tom Waits.

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Time Magazine

Anton Corbijn took his first photographs of singer-songwriter Tom Waits in Holland in 1977. Thirty-six years later, the duo- who've been collaborating ever since- have released Waits/Corbijn, a coffee-table book featuring more than 200 pages of Corbijn's portraits (including one of Waits in Monte Rio, Calif., in 2006, above) as well as some 0 pages of musings and photos taken by Waits.

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Stern Magazine, Germany

Sechs Uhr morgens, die Wohnung
ist leer, die Frau hat
einen verlassen, das Konto
ist gesperrt, und alles, was
einem bleibt, ist ein warmes
Bier. Und man selbst.
Der Optimist denkt jetzt, „endlich
allein“, und fühlt sich so, wie Tom
Waits aussieht. Schon immer aussah.
Glücklich vom Lastwagen überfahren
sozusagen. Es gibt keinen
anderen Sänger, Musiker, Blues-
Poeten und Schauspieler in einer
Person, dessen Gesicht, Blick und
Stimme den sarkastischen Schalk
des Lebens inniger ausdrückt als

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Interview Magazine

To hear gravel-voiced beatnik troubadour Tom Waits tell it, the process by which he and his longtime friend, the photographer, designer, and director Anton Corbijn, have collaborated over the years has been pretty simple. "Anton brings the camera," Waits says. "I'll bring a tuba, wear black, not shave, and take us to a burned-down Chinese restaurant." Their new book, Waits/Corbijn '77-'11, out this month from Schirmer/Mosel, comprises dozens of photographs that Corbijn has taken of Waits over the past three and a half decades, offering an intimate glimpse into the evolution of both men as creative co-conspirators and highly individual artists. The book also includes 51 pages of material contributed by Waits himself, including curiosities such as photos of oil stains, birds, and chalkboard menus; lists of famous suicides, train stations, and potential band names; and notes that read like poems. We sent Waits an e-mail asking about how he and Corbijn compiled the material for the book. We weren't expecting such a wide-ranging reply—but coming from Tom Waits, it didn't surprise us, either.

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Die Zeit, Germany

Wer sich der Kameralinse eines Fotografen ausliefert, beweist Vertrauen. Ein Bild, im Bruchteil einer Sekunde geschossen, kann Jahrzehnte überdauern, das Image einer prominenten Person mitbestimmen. Meist liegt die Verantwortung dabei in den Händen eines Fremden, nicht so bei Tom Waits: Mehr als dreißig Jahre lang ließ er sich von Anton Corbijn porträtieren, beide verbindet die Liebe zum Schwarz-Weiß-Bild. Gut 200 Fotografien sowie Skizzen und Kuriositäten von Waits zeigt der limitierte Band Waits/Corbijn '77-'11, der bei Schirmer/Mosel erscheint.

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Toronto Star


Tom Waits doesn’t advertise himself as a gentleman of great vanity, but his long, proud history of shrewdly cultivated multimedia strangeness has left little doubt that he knows how to pose for a picture.

It’s a talent that manifested itself fairly early on, apparently, and even in situations where Waits didn’t actually know he was on camera. Among the 145 portraits of Waits taken by esteemed photographer Anton Corbijn over the past three decades and gathered together in the lavish new coffee-table book Waits/Corbijn: ’77-’11are a few snapped on the sly backstage during a tour stop in Holland 36 years ago when Waits, then 27, was unaware that his effortlessly and unconsciously cool image was being committed to film by a budding young master of the craft



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