Ok, ho sempre creduto che fosse proprio lui sulla copertina di Rain Dogs e invece oggi scopro che no… “No, that isn’t Tom Waits. It’s two regulars of Café Lehmitz (a café near the Hamburg red-light boulevard Reeperbahn). They’re called Lily (woman) and Rose (man). The café no longer exists. It’s said that it has been turned into a church. The picture is by Swedish photographer Anders Petersen.

Petersen found the Cafe Lehmitz in the late 1960s, and spent most of his days and nights there for over three years, photographing its clients: sailors and stokers from around the world, along with dockers, cabdrivers, prostitutes, striptease dancers and pimps and many others who revelled in the underside of German society. With his impressive work of intimate yet disturbing portraits, Anders Petersen became one of the central figures of European photography. (…)”