Anton Corbijn
Waits / Corbijn. 1977-2011
Schirmer und Mosel Verlag, München 2013
In englischer Sprache. "Waits / Corbijn" is the celebration 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 and virtually unknown Anton Corbijn in Holland in 1977. 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. In turn, Corbijn helped Waits evolve his visual style into a new theatrical self that synced beautifully with the experimental music he was making. These 226 images record one of the longest and most fruitful collaborations in the careers of both artists.