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Interview with Tom Waits for Spain's El Dominical on Waits/Corbijn '77-'11"

Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:06:00 -0700

Interview with Tom Waits for Spain's El Dominical on Waits/Corbijn '77-'11"

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Tom Waits has autographed a copy of his Waits/Corbijn book for the Summerfield School & Farm fundraiser

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 00:06:00 -0700

Tom Waits has autographed a copy of his Waits/Corbijn book for the Summerfield School & Farm fundraiser. For bidding info: http://bit.ly/14fciHd

Tom Waits has a conversation about his book collaboration with photographer Anton Corbijn

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 00:06:00 -0700

Tom Waits has a conversation about his book collaboration with photographer Anton Corbijn in SF Chronicle Datebook cover story

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Even More International Press for WAITS/CORBIJN '77 - '11

Wed, 22 May 2013 00:05:00 -0700

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 n 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 verandre på The Tropicana Motel i Los Angeles i 1976. Resultatet av ennskapet er nå blitt til en tykk fotobok, hvor også Waits’ egne bilder er nkludert.– Et dokument over både Antons og min karrière, det var ideen, ier 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 o, wie Tom Waits aussieht. Schon immer aussah. Glücklich vom astwagen überfahren sozusagen. Es gibt keinen anderen Sänger, usiker, Blues- Poeten und Schauspieler in einer Person, dessen Gesicht, Blick nd 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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More International Press for WAITS/CORBIJN '77 - '11

Tue, 21 May 2013 00:05:00 -0700

L’Express Style, France

C’est l’une des sagas photographiques les plus riches jamais consacrée à une légende du rock. L’histoire commence à Amsterdam, en 1977, lorsqu’un jeune photographe néerlandais se faufile dans la loge d’un chanteur américain déjà nimbé de mystère. Le premier, Anton Corbijn a 21 ans ; le second, Tom Waits, 28. Suivront trente-six années d’amitié fascinée. « Tom Waits irradiait, raconte Corbijn. Son visage, son corps, es mouvements, surtout, m’évoquaient Egon Schiele, la brutalité crue des nus de Lucian Freud, le dandysme de Kerouac, le génie de Bukowski…» Une mythologie commune aux deux hommes, qu’Anton orbijn explorera sur les chemins du rock : le groupe Depeche Mode, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop seront magnifiés par ses grands portraits en noir et lanc, aux contrastes accusés, austères et tourmentés, à la façon du Nord. ientôt surnommé « Hamlet », Corbijn produira – notamment – nombre ’images de Joy Division et de New Order, deux groupes cultes parmi les lus dark.

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L’Express Culture, France

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Blitz Magazine, Portugal

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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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Curiosities from Tom Waits

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:05:00 -0700

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

Here is a list of stores in North America where you can get the book.

Hennessey and Ingalls, Santa Monica, CA

Skylight Books, Los Angeles, CA

Book Soup, West Hollywood, CA

Arcana, Culver City, CA

San Diego Museum of Art

Green Apple Books, San Francisco, CA

Keplers, Palo Alto, CA

Diesel: A Bookstore , Oakland, CA

Third Place Books, Lake Forest Park, WA

Book People, Austin, TX

University of Calgary Books

Wexner Center, Minneapolis, MN

Farleys, New Hope, PA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

After Words Books, Chicago, IL

A Cappella Books, Atlanta, GA

Rizzoli Bookstore, New York, NY

Clic Gallery, New York, NY

Bookcourt, Brooklyn, NY

Greenlight, Brooklyn, NY

Type Books, Toronto

Lileo, Toronto

Oscars, Vancouver

Bookworks, Albuquerque, NM

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

New England Mobile Book Fair, Brookline, MA

Bookloft, Great Barrington, MA

Books & Books, Miami Beach

If you don't see a store listed in your area call your local bookstore and special order the book.

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The Rolling Stones' official take on Tom Waits' guest appearance at their Oracle Arena show, Sunday May 5th

Wed, 08 May 2013 00:05:00 -0700

Check out a fan’s view of Tom Waits performing “ Little Red Rooster” with the Rolling Stones at Oracle Arena in Oakland, CA on May 5th

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:05:00 -0700

International press for WAITS/CORBIJN '77 - '11

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:05:00 -0700

Check out US, UK and European press and photos for Waits/Corbijn photo and curiosities book now.

The Guardian UK

Crows, wires, oil stains, cows, dead trees and a vulture – these are the kinds of things that could easily make it into a song by Tom Waits. They are, too, some of the things he has photographed over the years – alongside the arcane instruments he uses to make his beautifully ramshackle music and the shadows his tall thin body throws on the ground.

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Los Angeles Times

Tom Waits, captured by Anton Corbijn
Tom Waits rolled out of Los Angeles' dirty streets with the look of a tramp, the voice of a broken angel and a sound that combined blues, vaudeville, cheap whiskey and jazz. In 1977, he met photographer Anton Corbijn; it was early in both their careers, and it has led to 35 years of Corbijn shooting portraits of the iconoclastic private musician, showcased in the coffee-table book "Waits/Corbijn '77-'11" (Schirmer/Mosel: 272 pp., $200). Through Corbijn's lens, Waits has the grit of the Dust Bowl, lush, dangerous shadows and a face that grows better with age. But Corbijn also sees the whimsicality: Waits holding a doll, jumping, sitting in a Cadillac on the edge of New York City, holding an accordion. The 20 pages of Waits' own photos and writing at the book's end are full of humor, an essential part of his oeuvre.

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Sunday Business Post Magazine, Ireland

Even if you don’t immediately know Anton Corbijn’s name, you are almost certainly familiar with his incredible photography.

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The Rolling Stones and Tom Waits performing 'Little Red Rooster' live at the Oracle Arena

Tue, 07 May 2013 00:05:00 -0700

Vulture Velocity

Thu, 02 May 2013 00:05:00 -0700

A vulture shares his view on in- flight dining with Tom Waits in this excerpt from Waits' Curiosities section of the upcoming May 8th WAITS /CORBIJN limited edition photo and musings book.

New York Times Sunday Magazine Piece

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:04:00 -0700

Check out the NY Times Sunday Magazine photo essay on the 36 year collaboration between Waits and Corbijn that spawned their upcoming May 8th photo book here.

Sunday London Times Magazine Article and Select Images From “WAITS/CORBIJN ’77 – ‘11”

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:04:00 -0700

Tomato Seeds (Tom Waits)

Monsters On The Sidewalk (Tom Waits)

California, Dillon Beach, 2002 (Anton Corbijn)

Tom Waits: Growling Through the Grain

Sunday Times, 14 April 2013

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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Anton Corbijn To Open "Waits/Corbijn '77 - '11" Exhibition On May 5th In Amsterdam

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:03:00 -0700

On May 5th, WAITS/CORBIJN ’77 –’11, a limited edition book by Anton Corbijn and Tom Waits will be presented for the first time at &Foam the project space of Foam, the Photography Museum Amsterdam. To celebrate the book release, there will be an exhibition of unique material on display, allowing an insight into the book’s creative process and how this collaboration came to fruition. Anton Corbijn will be present at the event on May 5th to sign copies, ahead of the book’s worldwide release on the 8th of May. The presentation is organized by Foam, which since opening its doors in 2001, has established itself as one of Europe’s primary venues for photography. Foam has hosted solo exhibitions by key names in international photography, such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus, Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin, Annie Leibovitz and Anton Corbijn, whose major exhibition of recent work “Inwards and Onwards” was Foam's highest attended show to date.

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For more information on the presentation visit:
http://www.foam.org/press/2013/books-foam

For more information on the book visit:
www.waits-corbijn.com

Exclusive First Listen of "Son of Rogues Gallery" at NPR

Fri, 15 Feb 2013 00:02:00 -0800

Hear the Tom Waits' and Keith Richards' track, the classic sea chanty "Shenandoah," and have an exclusive first listen to the entire double album, ‘Son of Rogues Gallery’ at http://n.pr/156yvYa

Tom Waits and Anton Corbijn to Release a Collaborative Photographic Book "Waits/Corbijn '77-'11"

Mon, 14 Jan 2013 00:01:00 -0800

WAITS/CORBIJN ‘77-‘11, a collector’s edition linen slipcase book limited to 6,600 copies, is scheduled for a May 8th release in US and Europe by renowned German publisher Schirmer-Mosel. 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 longtime 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. By 1977, Tom Waits was already known world-wide for a series of stunning, timeless albums, filled with songs of a noir-tinged Los Angeles that owed as much to writers like John Fante and Jack Kerouac as it did to jazz, blues and tin-pan alley that had soaked into Waits’ pores from childhood. Ahead of Waits lay his partnership with Kathleen Brennan—leading to such touchstone recordings as Rain Dogs and Mule Variations—his film work with the likes of Francis Ford Coppola and Jim Jarmusch, and his stage projects with legendary director Robert Wilson.

In those first photographs, then, are the seeds of these two intertwined careers, feeding off each other. Waits’ vibrant persona helped Corbijn define his narrative, cinematic style of still photography: images that felt as if you were coming in on the middle of some unfolding drama. Corbijn complimented Waits’ theatrical side in a way that synced beautifully with the experimental music he was making with Brennan. “Anton picks up a small black box, points it at you and all the leaves fall from the trees. The shadows now are long and scary, the house looks completely abandoned and I look like a handsome… undertaker. I love working with Anton, he’s someone with a real point of view. Believe me, I won’t go jumping off rocks wearing only a Dracula cape for just anyone,” Waits says.
Waits’ own photography, collected here for the first time under the title “Curiosities,” gives a visual handle to the artistic intelligence millions of fans know only through his music.

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
ISBN 978-3-8296-0555-7

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

Further reading www.waits-corbijn.com

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Hear Tom Waits and Keith Richards sing Shenandoah

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 00:01:00 -0800

Tom Waits' and Keith Richards' New Recording of "Shenandoah" Premieres on NPR’s All Songs Considered

Tue, 08 Jan 2013 00:01:00 -0800

The hymn like ballad is streaming at http://n.pr/V8TDt1 and is the first track available from the upcoming 2-disc compilation, Son of Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs & Chanteys produced by Hal Willner.

The ballad has a storied lore, first believed to have been sung by Missouri River boatmen before making its way to the sea and popularity in the 1880’s.

The entire 2-disc compilation will be released February 19th on Anti Records. Its 36 songs features an eclectic array of performers including; Shane Macgowan, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, Macy Gray, Michael Stipe, Courtney Love, Chuck E. Weiss, Marianne Faithfull and Executive Producer, Johnny Depp.

Photo by Danny Clinch (Tom Waits)
Photo by Jane Rose (Keith Richards)

Tom Waits on The Simpsons 1/6/13

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 00:01:00 -0800

Tom Waits guest stars on The Simpsons Sunday, January 6 on Fox. Check your local listings for channel and time.

'Woyzeck' Review: Tragedy Triumphs

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:12:00 -0800

Congrats to the Shotgun Players' triumphant staging of Buchner's classic piece Woyzeck with music by Kathleen Brennan and Tom Waits.

Tom Waits' 2002 recording BLOOD MONEY is a collection of the songs from the award winning stage production of Woyzeck by avant director Robert Wilson, Waits and Brennan. Read more at this link.