Tom Waits

Matt Mahurin

Book - 2019

"A collection of portraits of musician Tom Waits, the result of a 30-year collaboration with photographer and illustrator Matt Mahurin This book is a testament to the unique collaboration, going back three decades, between the photographer and illustrator Matt Mahurin and the musician Tom Waits. Having shot magazine portraits, album covers, and music videos of Waits, Mahurin was inspired to resurrect 100 dormant film negatives as a jumping off point to explore his own surreal, poetic, and occasionƯally dark vision. The images vary from traditional porƯtraits to ones that capture Waits in concert--but the majority are imagined scenes in which Waits is more muse than musician. In addition to the diverse images, the book includes a fo...reword by Waits, an essay by Mahurin on their longtime collaboration, and 20 original paintings, drawings, photographs, and digital images inspired by Waits's song titles."--Publisher's website.

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Published
New York, NY : Abrams 2019.
Language
English
Main Author
Matt Mahurin (photographer)
Other Authors
Tom Waits, 1949- (-)
Physical Description
240 unnumbered pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
ISBN
9781419739095
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Mahurin has been photographing musician Tom Waits for more than 35 years, and in this superb collection, he displays his previously unpublished illustrations, paintings, and photographs of Waits. Fans will recognize the black-and-white image of a lumbering Waits with a hat in his hands that adorned the cover of Mule Variations, as well as his images of Waits in his trademark sport coat and fedora. Mahurin intersperses throughout illustrated interpretations of songs such as "Filipino Box Spring Hog," depicted by an inferno-red painting of a man basting a hog in a fire pit, and "Martha" (a black-and-white drawing of a table set with two coffee cups and roses circling above). Photos capture a contemplative Waits leaning back in his chair with a manual typewriter at his desk; a maniacal, cigar-chomping Waits with an eye patch brandishing a sword; and Waits cracking a whip in a moving horse carriage. The book appropriately concludes with two images: a color shot of a grinning Waits behind the wheel of a car driving off, and a black-and-white photo of him at the piano, head bowed as if he's finishing a song. This is an absolute must for Waits fans. (Oct.)

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