Tom Waits By Matt Mahurin Av Matt Mahurin

<DIV><B>A collection of wildly inventive portraits of musician Tom Waits, the result of a 30-year collaboration with photographer and illustrator Matt Mahurin.</B><BR/><BR/> This visually arresting coffee table book is a testament to the unique collaboration, going back three decades, between the photographer and illustrator Matt Mahurin and the musician Tom Waits.<BR/><BR/> 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 occasion­ally dark vision. The images vary from traditional por­traits to ones that capture Waits in concert—but the majority are richly imagined scenes in which Waits is more muse than musician.<BR/><BR/> In addition to the diverse images, <I>Tom Waits by Matt Mahurin</I> includes a foreword 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.<BR/><BR/><B>“At once mysterious and revealing, photographer Matt Mahurin’s <I>Tom Waits</I> is an evocative visual tribute to one of rock’s visionary eccentrics.” —<I>Rolling Stone</I></B></DIV>