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27 The Legend And Mythology of the 27 Club By Gene Simmons
JEREMIAH Inspired Interiors
By Jeremiah Goodman Edited by Dean Rhys-Morgan Forewords by Elsa Peretti and Nicky Haslam Afterword by Miles Redd
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN 100 The Masters Photograph the Maestro
AUTOMATING HUMANITY
BLUE A St. Barts Memoir
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UNDER MY WINDOW
COMMUNITY TABLE Recipes for an Ecological Food Future
AMONGST THE LIBERAL ELITE The Road Trip Exploring Societal Inequities Solidified by Trump (RESIST)
By Joe Toscano
By David Coggins
By Jaime Bernstein and Steve J. Sherman
By Michal Ronnen Safdie Introduction by Ari Shavit
By The Ecology Center Foreword by Alice Waters Introduction by Evan Marks
By Elly Lonon Illustrated by Joan Reilly
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A PECULIAR PARADISE Florida Photographs
WE CAME FROM FIRE Photographs of Kurdistan’s Armed Struggle Against ISIS
LEGACY IN STONE Syria Before War
By Nathan Benn Introduction by Verna Posever Curtis Visual consultation by Charles Churchwald
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By Joey Lawrence
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By Kevin Bubriski Introduction by Amr Al Azm Texts and maps by Ross Burns
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MOSCOW By Boogie
COCOONS
By Peter Steinhauer Foreword by Linda Benedict Jones
SOMETIMES OVERWHELMING By Arlene Gottfried
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AT THEIR HOME Marseille
BARFLIES Reykjavik 2
I REFUSE FOR THE DEVIL TO TAKE MY SOUL Inside Cook County Jail
By John Mack Foreword by Alain Moreau
By Snorri Bros. Introduction by Jón Kaldal Afterword by Chuck Cors
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PAPER NEW YORK CITY
By Lili Kobielski Introduction by Vera Institute of Justice
pg. 36-37 FRONT COVER: from Jeremiah: Inspired Interiors by Jeremiah Goodman Edited by Dean Rhys-Morgan
By PaperMade
BACK COVER: from Lucia the Luchadora and the Million Masks by Cynthia Leonor Garza Text by Alyssa Bermudez
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LUCÍA THE LUCHADORA AND THE MILLION MASKS
ROX’S SECRET CODE
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By Cynthia Leonor Garza Illustrations by Alyssa Bermudez
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By Maria Lecocq and Nathan Archambault Illustrations by Jessika von Innerebner Tech by Rodolfo Dengo
SPECTACULARLY BEAUTIFUL By Lisa Lucas Illustrations by Laurie Stein
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Kurt Cobain
Brian Jones
Robert Johnson
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Jimi Hendrix
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The Legend and Mythology of the 27 Club By Gene Simmons
The summer of 1969 was a momentous one in modern history. It was a season punctuated with change. Apollo 11 landed on the moon, thousands of young fans flocked to rock ‘n’ roll festivals like Woodstock and the controversial Altamont Freeway concert, the Manson Family cult were on a high-profile killing spree, and the first uprisings that would become the Stonewall Riots began. It was an electric summer of violent endings, new beginnings, and social unrest. It was also the summer that a myth was born—beginning with the tragic, untimely death of Rolling Stones founder, Brian Jones. The world soon lost two more huge music stars: Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix. Not only did losing these three beacons of music culture seem to signal the end of a musical era, it also felt like a foreboding sign; they had all died at exactly the same age. All three had lost their lives at the pinnacle of their creative output, and all three were exactly 27 years old.
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Gene Simmons is the co-founder of KISS—America’s #1 Gold Record Award Winning Group Of All Time, In All Categories (RIAA), Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees since 2014, and 45 years strong as one of rock’s most influential bands. With KISS, Simmons has recorded 44 albums and sold over 100 million records worldwide, and the band continues to sell out stadium tours today. Simmons is also a bestselling author, boasting New York Times bestsellers Me, Inc. and On Power among others, and has founded a number of hugely successful businesses, including the restaurant chain Rock & Brews.
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People have speculated that there could be a dastardly lineage, from the poisoning of blues pioneer Robert Johnson in 1938, through these icons of the 60s, and more recently to rebel chanteuse Amy Winehouse’s death from alcohol poisoning in 2011. Could it be a twisted fate that the world’s very best creative souls come to early, often violent, deaths at just 27 years old? Over time, this idea began to be known as, “the 27 club,” and it has persisted in the public imagination. In 27: The Legend and Mythology of the 27 Club, rock ‘n’ roll icon Gene Simmons takes a deep dive into the life stories of these legendary figures, without giving credence to the romanticized idea that being in the “club” is somehow a perverse privilege. Simmons wills us to acknowledge the extraordinary lives, not the sensational deaths, of the musicians and artists who left an indelible mark on the world.
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Inspired Interiors
By Jeremiah Goodman Edited by Dean Rhys Morgan Forewords by Elsa Peretti and Nicky Haslam Afterword by Miles Redd Inducted to the prestigious Interior Design Hall of Fame in 1987 Jeremiah Goodman has long been revered within the interior design community for his ability to infuse static rooms with warmth and personality. For almost seven decades his stylish and studied brushstrokes have chronicled the homes of powerbrokers in the upper reaches of the fashion and decorating worlds. Names like Bruce Weber, Carolina Herrera, Red Krakoff, and Tony Duquette populate a client list that reads like a page from Who’s Who.
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Jeremiah Goodman, 1922–2017, had an unwavering
passion for architecture, theater, design, and interiors. Goodman illustrated buildings and interiors for the leading personalities, architects, and interior designers of his day. His work has been collected by such institutions as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cooper Hewitt Museum, and the New Britain Museum of American Art, and such individuals as Nan Bush and Bruce Weber, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Nancy and Ronald Reagan, and Mary Rodgers Guettel. His first monograph, Jeremiah: A Romantic Vision, was published by powerHouse in 2007.
Jeremiah: Inspired Interiors chronicles Goodman’s life and work, drawing on paintings and photographs taken from his own extensive archive. More than mere illustrations, his paintings interpret and inspire, conveying how a space is experienced through the eyes of an artist. Jeremiah can evoke a brocade-upholstered chair or a Baroque mirror with a few calligraphic brushstrokes that both describe and animate. Indeed, so evocative and full of particularized information are Jeremiah’s paintings that they form a unique record of the work of many of the great design personalities of the past half century. Simply put, Jeremiah’s work comprises the best record of America’s greatest interiors.
After completing a degree in costume design at the Wimbledon College of Arts, Dean Rhys-Morgan earned his fashion stripes working alongside legendary fashion stylist Isabella Blow at Tattler magazine. He has since written on design and fashion for an international array of publications, including the Telegraph, Grazia, and Playboy. In 2013 RhysMorgan authored Bold, Beautiful and Damned: The World of 1980s Fashion Illustrator Tony Viramontes, a landmark monograph chronicling the work of the leading fashion artist. Rhys-Morgan currently divides his time between London, New York, and Los Angeles.
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LEONARD BERNSTEIN 100
The Masters Photograph the Maestro By Jaime Bernstein and Steve J. Sherman
Leonard Bernstein is internationally renowned as one of the greatest conductors, composers, musical inspirations, and creative minds of our time. He is also legendary for his extreme passion, raw charisma, and powerful convictions, with a brash, insatiable lust for life that became etched more clearly into the lines of his face with each passing year. As with many celebrities, Leonard Bernstein was constantly being photographed, but unlike most, he was photographed by some of the greatest visual masters of the 20th century, including Richard Avedon, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Ken Heyman, Yousuf Karsh, Stanley Kubrick, Gjon Mili, Arnold Newman, Ruth Orkin, Irving Penn, and W. Eugene Smith.
PHOTOGRAPHY - MUSIC - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY HARDCOVER, 200 PAGES, 9 X 11 INCHES ISBN 978-1-57687-893-4 $40.00 US/CAN
Steve J. Sherman is a photographer, concert
producer, and activist. As a photographer in the performing arts since 1983, he is widely recognized for his long-term associations with Carnegie Hall and The New York Times. His photos have been featured in and on countless publications, books, recordings, TV documentaries, and in two feature films, and exhibited in museums, concert halls, and galleries worldwide. His acclaimed coffee-table book Leonard Bernstein at Work: His Final Years 1984-1990 (Amadeus Press, 2010) features all his own photography, and he is proud to now feature other people’s photography in this, his second book.
To mark his centennial, curator and photographer Steve J. Sherman and Jamie Bernstein, Lenny’s eldest daughter, present this remarkable collection of 100 iconic images, which tell the Maestro’s life story through the unique vantage point of these image-makers and their revelatory (and sometimes never-before-seen) photographs. A foreword by Bernstein’s three children, along with a selection of Bernstein’s handwritten music sketches, letters, speeches and poems, further enhances this intimate journey into the life of an artist who changed the face of the 20th century.
Jamie Bernstein is a writer, broadcaster, filmmaker,
and concert narrator. In addition to writing her many articles and concert narrations, Jamie travels extensively, speaking about music as well as about her father, Leonard Bernstein. Jamie’s documentary film, Crescendo: the Power of Music has won numerous prizes, and is now viewable on Netflix. Jamie’s memoir, Famous Father Girl, was published by HarperCollins in June of 2018.
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We’ve been struck by a tidal wave of digital technologies that is ripping through our world like a chainsaw cutting through butter. Everything’s happening so fast most people don’t even know where it started or how it got this way to begin with. What’s happening seems unreal. But it is. And it’s here to stay.
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AUTOMATING HUMANITY By Joe Toscano
Automating Humanity is the shocking and eye-opening new manifesto from international award-winning designer Joe Toscano that unravels and lays bare the power agendas of the world’s greatest tech titans in plain language, and delivers a fair warning to policymakers, civilians, and industry professionals alike: we need a strategy for the future, and we need it now. Automating Humanity is an insider’s perspective on everything Big Tech doesn’t want the public to know—or think about— from the addictions installed on a global scale to the profits being driven by fake news and disinformation, to the way they’re manipulating the world for profit and using our data to train systems that will automate jobs at an explosive, unprecedented scale.
Joe Toscano is a former Experience Design Consultant for Google, and has won international awards for his work, including Cannes Lions, Clios, and more. He also writes for international publications like InVision and Adweek, and has been featured in several others. However, in 2017 Toscano decided to step away from his role consulting for Google, due to ethical concerns. Since leaving his role at Google, Toscano has been focused on bringing technology literacy to the masses, which has led to speaking and consulting engagements across the world—more than 19 different states or nations on four different continents in less than a year. These events have ranged from lectures in university classrooms to keynote engagements with world leaders to private consultations with some of the world’s leading digital corporations, including R/GA, IBM, SAP, and many more. Together, with the help of his global network, Joe plans start a global conversation that will help educate the public about what’s going on inside the industry, help regulators understand what questions to ask, and provide technologist the knowledge, tools, and resources to create a better future, through technology. POWERHOUSE BOOKS FALL 2018
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Toscano provides a critique of modern regulation, including parts of the new European Union’s General Data Proctection Regulation (GDPR) suggesting how we can create proactive, adaptable regulation that satisfies both the needs of consumer safety and commercial success in the international economy. The content touches on everything from technology, economics, and public policy to psychology, history, and ethics, and is written in a way that is accessible to everyone from the average reader to the technical expert.
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BLUE
A St. Barts Memoir By David Coggins
He gained instant fans around the world with tales of his family’s many years visiting Paris in winter. Now David Coggins brings to curious, travel-loving readers the same degree of enviable stories and charming illustrations, this time from St. Barts—a perfect compliment to the first book in the series. Blue: A St. Barts Memoir by artist and writer David Coggins is an affectionate, poetic account of his family’s annual visits to St. Barthélemy in the French West Indies. As in his popular Paris in Winter, the pages of Blue are full of lyrical writing and vivid watercolors and ink drawings. Coggins and his family have a passion for the simple yet sophisticated pleasures of life on the beautiful French island. That passion is contagious, and the reader is soon caught up in rituals developed and refined over 20 years. Much of it centers around the mountain villa where they stay and the timeless joys of the Caribbean: swimming, reading, sailing, meals overlooking the sea. Coggins describes the natural world lovingly, and captures it in his drawings—sublime sky and sea, lush tropical gardens, abundant wildlife from iguanas to whales. He writes about social life, about the famous and glamorous, but more about people who live on the island: chefs, artists, wine sellers, sailors. TRAVEL - CARIBBEAN & WEST INDIES - PERSONAL MEMOIRS HARDCOVER, 264 PAGES, 5.25 X 8.25 INCHES ISBN 978-1-57687-897-2 $24.95 US/CAN
David Coggins is the author and illustrator of Paris in Winter: An Illustrated Memoir and The Nostalgic Heart. His artwork and designs for theater have been seen widely in the U.S. and abroad.
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Blue is a delight for the eye and the mind, an antidote to the pressures of urban life. It’s a deeply personal telling of one family’s experiences in an idyllic setting, but Coggins’s gifts as storyteller and illustrator, conveyed with humanity and a love of life, make Blue universally enchanting.
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UNDER MY WINDOW By Michal Ronnen Safdie Introduction by Ari Shavit
Jews, Muslims, Christians, believers, nonbelievers, residents, tourists,and so many others have flocked for millennia to the cultural richness of Jerusalem. It is one of the world’s greatest crossroads, hosting the variety that is humanity. From her stunning viewpoint, Michal Safdie invites you to see what she sees every day. Perched up on a hill in the Old City of Jerusalem, along the fragile border between the Jewish and Muslim Quarters, is the home of Michal Ronnen Safdie. Facing east, it overlooks the Western Wall precinct, the Dome of the Rock, and the Al-Aqsa Mosque. To the north unfolds the Muslim Quarter with Mount Scopus in the skyline; to the west, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher and the Christian Quarter.
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Born in Jerusalem, Israel, Michal Ronnen Safdie was educated in the fields of sociology and anthropology. Her photographs have been noted for their unusual range, encompassing subjects from the natural world (studies of ice, anthropomorphic trees, and vapor trails) to human crisis and sociopolitical issues (refugees from Darfur, Gacaca trials in Rwanda, the Western Wall, migrant workers’ quarters in East Asia, and orthodox women in Israel). Her photographs have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world. She now divides her time between Jerusalem and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Directly under her window is a narrow alley, through which thousands of people pass every day. The alley is a conduit. It is a passage for those entering the Old City through Dung Gate on the south side—mostly Palestinians making their way to their workplaces, schools, markets. It is the route of Christians to the Holy Sepulcher and of Muslim pilgrims during Ramadan, and other holidays, on their way to the Haram al-Sharif (Temple Mount). It is also the path connecting Jews residing in the Jewish Quarter and in the western part of the city, to the Wailing Wall (Western Wall). The view from the window offers two contrasting perspectives. Across toward the Western Wall precinct: vast ceremonial spaces, and the silhouette of the Old City quarters. Directly below, in the alley and terraces: a great variety of people seeking the sacred as well as the morning and evening cycles of life’s routines. The photographs capture personal moments alongside largescale public events in the city of Jerusalem, where belief and ritual significantly shape day-to-day life. on Israeli Public Television, Shavit has become one of the strongest voices in the nation’s public arena. He challenges the dogmas of both right and left with his unique insights into the roles of Israel and Zionism in the 21st century. Shavit is also a frequent contributor to the New Yorker, The New York Times, The New Republic, and The Sunday Times of London.
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“KREBINETTER” WITH STEAMED VEGGIES Serves 4-6
2 lbs organic ground pork with 22-25% fat (ask your local butcher) 1 cup buckwheat - sea salt - black pepper, freshly ground 1 cup ghee (or butter) 4 medium white onions, skin removed 8-12 medium carrots, tops removed 1 small oxheart cabbage, quartered 1 lb butter, cubed
(Danish breaded pork patties) Preheat oven to 400°F. Form ground pork into softball-size patties, add sea salt and freshly ground pepper to taste. Coat each side of the patties with buckwheat. Heat a large pan on high. Once hot, reduce heat to medium-high, and add in half of the ghee. Working in batches, place patties in pan and panfry until each side is brown and buckwheat is golden, about 5-7 minutes. Finish in the oven, about 5-8 minutes. Once done, meat should reach a temperature of 145°F and hold for four minutes. Cover and set aside. Place whole onions on a medium baking sheet, and cook in oven for about 20-30 minutes until fork tender. Skin should be brown. While onions are cooking, in a medium pot, add cubes of butter between layers of carrots, and steam until al dente, about 5-7 minutes. Do the same with the cabbage. Add sea salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste.
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Place the vegetables on plates, top with krebinetter and drizzle with pan drippings. Serve.
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4 cups heavy whipping cream 4 cups Greek yogurt, drained 2 Tbl pectin 2 Tbl boiling water 1 lemon, juiced and zested 1 cup organic cane sugar 2 medium cara cara oranges, segmented 2 medium blood oranges, segmented
with shaved chocolate In a large bowl, beat heavy whipping cream until it has medium-soft peaks, about 4-6 minutes. Set aside in a cool place. In a separate, non-reactive bowl, mix together pectin and hot water. Once incorporated, add in lemon juice, zest, and sugar until smooth, and stir in drained Greek yogurt. Gently fold in whipped cream. Do not over mix. Mixture should be light and fluffy. Pour mixture into 6-8 glass canning jars and allow to chill in the refrigerator for at least four hours. Top with raw segmented oranges and shaved chocolate, and serve.
2 medium navel oranges, segmented ½ cup shaved chocolate or cacao nibs
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Recipes for an Ecological Food Future By The Ecology Center Foreword by Alice Waters Introduction by Evan Marks
Knowing we’re at a turning point in food, politically, environmentally, and culturally, this project started by looking for solutions. What can we do now to shape our future? We then decided to take action, drawing together the most passionate farmers, chefs, and volunteers we could to literally bring people to the table to have a real conversation about where their food came from and what’s happening in the world of it. Community Table: Recipes for an Ecological Food Future is a comprehensive guide to regenerative eating, inspired by a yearlong sustainable dinner series in Southern California. Designed as a tool-kit for an abundant future, Community Table, features inspiring storytelling, delicious recipes, beautiful imagery, tangible step-by-step how-tos for making change, and intimate access to celebrated farmers and chefs. COOKING - ESSAYS & NARRATIVES - HEALTH & HEALING HARDCOVER, 320 PAGES, 7.5 X 9.25 INCHES ISBN 978-1-57687-882-8 $40.00 US/CAN
The Ecology Center is a non-profit eco-education
center focused on creative solutions for thriving on planet Earth. Based in a historic Congdon Farmhouse in San Juan Capistrano, California, they transformed an empty dirt lot into an ecological oasis. It’s their belief that, together, we can create a healthy, abundant future. With his background in permaculture and agroecology,
Evan Marks knows that people have the ability to
directly impact the environment through individual change. As the founder and director of The Ecology Center, Evan Marks is a visionary leader pushing the regenerative conversation forward.
Alice Waters is a chef, author, and food activist, and
the founder and owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, California. In 2015 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama, proving that eating is a political act, and that the table is a powerful means to social justice and positive change. Alice is the author of 15 books, including New York Times bestsellers The Art of Simple Food I & II, and a memoir, Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook.
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Topics covered include: growing, sourcing, consumption, husbandry, community, and action, themed around our ten formative principles. Each chapter in turn offers an explanation of the theme, real-life applications, in-depth conversations with the farmer and chef, and from their dinner, a collection of recipes which include charts to scale up when hosting large parties and groups. Contributors include: Peter Schaner, Kerri Cacciata, Scott Breneman, Paddy Glennon, Jason McLeod, George Kibby, Flemming Hansen, Mette Helbaek, Krystina Cook, Michael Puglisi, Ryan Adams, Evan Marks, Megan Penn, Greg Daniels, Makoto Chino, Ryan & Nikki Wilson, Alex Weiser, Anna Maria Desipris, Rich Mead, Holly Carpenter, Paul Buchanan, Mark Wagner, Jennifer Sherman, and more. The Ecology Center believes the possibility of an abundant, healthy, and regenerative future relies on our collective adoption of the following ten principles: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Eat Fresh + Seasonal Buy Local Choose Organic Respect Animals Grow Your Own Celebrate Diversity Promote Polycultures Nourish All Children Educate for Change Celebrate the Harvest
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AMONGST THE LIBERAL ELITE
The Road Trip Exploring Societal Inequities Solidified by Trump (RESIST) By Elly Lonon Illustrations by Joan Reilly
Getting woke is hard. As this couple is discovering under 45’s regime, it takes more than listening to NPR on our daily commutes and watching Jon Stewart cameos on our phones in bed while we sip craft beer from artisanal glassware made by at-risk women on another continent to make us global citizens. That won’t stop Alexandra and Michael from trying, though.
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Elly Lonon, a member of the Liberal Elite herself, is
still recovering from growing up in a red state. Born and raised in North Carolina, she moved to Manhattan for graduate school and to pursue a career in the music business. Weary from consistent marginalization by the patriarchy, she left both the industry and NYC, opting to work for a not-for-profit and moving to the suburbs of Jersey where living near a Superfund site promptly gave her cancer. Once in remission, she read far too many self-help books, learned to embrace life, and abandoned her previous career to write and procreate.
Joan Reilly’s work was featured most recently in
RESIST!, a comics newspaper edited by Francoise Mouly and Nadja Spiegelman, and in Draw the Line (drawthelinecomics.com), an online anthology of comics promoting political action. Her comics and illustration have been published in many anthologies and literary magazines over the last two decades. She is a co-editor of The Big Feminist BUT: Comics About the IFs, ANDs & BUTs of Feminism, and created illustrations for the “Ask Marilyn” column in Parade magazine for over ten years.
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Based on the successful McSweeney’s column, Amongst the Liberal Elite takes readers on a cross-country road trip with Alex and Michael, romantic partners whose voices will resonate with fans of shows such as Portlandia, Parks and Recreation, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, and Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. The couple decides to use their tax refund to reconnect with their fellow Americans via a cross-country road trip and, more specifically, better understand how Trump won the election. In a quest to visit The World’s Largest Frying Pan (of which there are six in the U.S.) Alex and Michael embark on a journey marked with personal and societal realizations. Arguments about topics ranging from mom-shaming to misogyny related to their pet cat, unsuccessful attempts at yoga meditations in small spaces, and anticlimactic touristic attractions that deepen their gloom about the nation, bring Alex and Michael clarity about what it means to resist. Amongst the Liberal Elite is the political satire we’ve all been waiting for—one that offers comic relief from ourselves.
Advance praise for Amongst the Liberal Elite: “Amongst the Liberal Elite is the book everyone with outrage fatigue (and a sense of humor) needs.” –Jen Mann, New York Times best-selling author of People I Want to Punch in the Throat “Elly and Joan had me at ‘giant granite edifice celebrating the patriarchy’ and kept me through the final page. Amongst the Liberal Elite is a hilarious, tender look at a couple desperate to break free (but not too free) from their privilege and inherent biases and make a difference (any difference!) in Trump’s America. I laughed out loud on nearly every page, and cringed in recognition almost as often.” –Heidi Stevens, columnist at The Chicago Tribune
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A PECULIAR PARADISE Florida Photographs
By Nathan Benn Introduction by Verna Posever Curtis Visual consultation by Charles Churchward A Peculiar Paradise: Florida Photographs by Nathan Benn focuses on the year 1981, a time when South Florida became notorious as the gateway for narcotics and a destination for Caribbean immigrants, while in other parts of the state, life went on without interruption or conflict. Benn shows us a state that is vibrant and marvelously quirky during a time of gaudy prosperity for some while other Floridians merely sought continuity or struggled desperately for their survival. Often charged with political and social commentary, the photographs take full advantage of Kodachrome film’s distinctive color palette. Photographs and narrative are organized into segments covering manifestations of extreme wealth, Little Havana, illegal Caribbean immigration, elderly citizens, quirky flora and fauna, high and low nightlife, Dundee’s 5th Street Gym, and the deadly narcotics war.
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Nathan Benn was born in Miami, Florida, and worked for the Miami News while attending Miami-Dade College and the University of Miami. Immediately after graduation he became a photographer for the National Geographic Society. Three-hundred of his photographs were published in National Geographic magazine, and hundreds more in numerous books. In 1991 he was co-founder and President of Picture Network International, the earliest Internet digital asset management and online stock photo licensing platform. From 2000 through 2002, Nathan was the Director of Magnum Photos, Inc. In 2013 powerHouse Books published his award-winning monograph Kodachrome Memory: American Pictures 1972–1990. Verna Posever Curtis is an art historian and curator specializing in photographs and other works of art on paper. Born in Miami Beach, she is a former curator at the Library of Congress and the Milwaukee Art Museum, her publications include Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography (Aperture Foundation, 2011); Ambassadors of Progress: American Women Photographers in Paris, 1900-1901 (Terra Foundation, 2001); and F. Holland Day (Clio Press, 1995).
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Benn, born and reared in Miami, reveals in his first-person commentary the circumstances surrounding the development of his career and an insider’s look at working for National Geographic magazine during a period of that publication’s internal management conflict. A Peculiar Paradise offers an entertaining and subjective volume that reflects Benn’s affection for his hometown and celebrates the economic and social re-invention of Florida that eliminated most of what was familiar from his boyhood. Charles Churchward is known for his art direction, design, and editorial achievements in the publishing world and has worked for many of the most influential magazines of our age. Best known as the Design Director at Vogue and Vanity Fair at Conde Nast Publications. He is the author and designer of Herb Ritts: The Golden Hour (Rizzoli, 2011) and The Eye And Visual Influence Of Alexander Liberman: It’s Modern. (Rizzoli, 2013), creator and designer of Then: Photographs By Alexander Liberman (Random House, 1995) and art director for the books In Vogue (Rizzoli, 2006), Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People (Knopf, 2007), Extreme Beauty In Vogue (Skira, 2009), and The World In Vogue: People, Parties, Places (Knopf, 2009).
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WE CAME FROM FIRE
Photographs of Kurdistan’s Armed Struggle Against ISIS By Joey Lawrence
Since March 2015, photographer and author Joey Lawrence has gained unprecedented access to Kurdish guerrilla organizations fighting against ISIS, embedding himself into the chaos of the Iraq and Syrian Civil War on three separate trips. Three components meld to create an extraordinarily brave and important documentation: his medium format portrait photography, a written study of the history of the turmoil that led to the rise of armed Kurdish militias, and intimate journal notes of vivid personal experiences while working as a photographer in the war. PHOTOGRAPHY - PHOTOESSAYS & DOCUMENTARIES HARDCOVER 264 PAGES 12.25 X 9.8 INCHES ISBN 978-1-57687-868-2 $60.00 US/CAN
Joey Lawrence is a Canadian-born photographer and director based in Brooklyn, New York. Since the age of 18, Joey’s work has consistently been sought out by advertising clients, including National Geographic Channel, U.S. Army, Lavazza, Canon, Jose Cuervo, History Channel, the government of Abu Dhabi, and many others. His work is regularly seen in magazines, subway advertisements, and billboards. A firm believer in fostering creativity and fulfillment through personal pursuits, Joey wrote and directed his first scripted film entitled People of the Delta. Most recently, Joey traveled three times to Iraq and Syria to document the ongoing crisis. He has embedded with multiple sides of the war, including the government-held areas in Damascus, the Free Syrian Army opposition rebels, and Kurdish fighters of the YPG. Joey has been listed as one of the “Most Influential Photographers on Social Media”; Complex magazine named him one of the “30 Photographers under 30 to Watch”; and he has recently been featured in London’s National Portrait Gallery as part of the Taylor Wessing Prize exhibition.
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The war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria has flooded our daily news with troubling statistics of massacres and mass migrations, but there are faces and human stories at the heart of the conflict. Joey writes, “From Iraq, one crosses the Tigris River into war-torn Syria, and is catapulted into a worldview crafted by the guerrilla. You are welcomed back by familiar faces wearing a palette of earth tones interrupted by a brightly colored scarf—likely given to them by their mothers. Conversations over cigarettes and tea with much too much sugar often drift to conspiracy theories about the entire world plotting to destroy their cause. Oddly, they begin to make sense. The guerrilla’s secretive hierarchy vanishes due to its compartmentalization, intention of defending their culture, and way of life. We had once again entered the world of the Kurdish guerrilla.” During his travels, Joey observed ragtag volunteer guerrilla fighters with mysterious links to the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK) grow into a fully functional army, and into the US-led coalition’s most trusted partner, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). With little official government support and just light weapons; brothers, sisters, former university students, and refugees who once fled from their homes have now taken up arms together against a common enemy-—radical jihadist groups that contest the secular social reformations in Kurdistan. Joey’s uncanny ability to gain trust and his fearless and open attitude towards the unexpected combined with his genuine love for his subjects and their quest for independence gives We Came from Fire a deeply felt sense of humanity.
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LEGACY IN STONE Syria Before War
By Kevin Bubriski Introduction by Amr Al Azm Texts and maps by Ross Burns Legacy in Stone: Syria Before War is a collection of 100 black-and-white photographs immortalizing the lost ancient monuments of Syria. Kevin Bubriski was on assignment in Syria in 2003, during the infancy of the U.S. war in neighboring Iraq. He was photographing the country’s ancient monuments, as well as documenting the daily lives and ordinary human stories of its citizens. Unbeknownst to him, within the decade, a war would break out in Syria, and destroy or damage much of what he had photographed.
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Kevin Bubriski’s fine art photography is in permanent
collections at the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. He is a recipient of Guggenheim and NEA fellowships. His books include Portrait of Nepal (Chronicle Books, 1993), Pilgrimage: Looking at Ground Zero (powerHouse, 2002), and Look into My Eyes: Nuevomexicanos por vida 1981–83 (Museum of New Mexico Press, 2016). His retrospective monograph Nepal 1975–2011 was published by Radius Books and the Peabody Museum Press of Harvard University in 2014. In 2016–2017 Bubriski was a Senior Scholar Fulbright Fellow in Nepal, where he pursued his independent fine-art photography in Nepal’s remotest regions. Bubriski lives with his wife in Vermont.
Amr Al Azm was educated in the UK, at the University College, London and graduated with a doctoral degree in 1991. He was the Director of Scientific and Conservation Laboratories at the General Department of Antiquities and Museums (1999–2004) and taught at the University of Damascus until 2006. Currently he is an Associate Professor of Middle East History and Anthropology at Shawnee State University in Ohio and a keen follower and commentator on current
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Until the Syrian civil war in 2010, the Suq in Aleppo was considered to be the longest continuously inhabited place of commerce in the world, existing for well over two millennia. Bubriski photographed the Suq while it was still thriving, teeming with merchants and artisans. He also captured stunning, decisive images from the Dead Cities, the Basilica of St. Simeon, the pilgrimage sites of Serjilla, al-Bara, Kharab Shams, Mushabak, Baqirha, Qalb Lozeh, Resafe, early Islamic sites near Raqqa, and the ancient Roman trade cities of Apamea and Palmyra. Bubriski recalls a special sense of discovery and awe being in a place of such rich history and haunting beauty. He remembers holding his breath and seeing the ruins take shape on the ground-glass of his Hasselblad camera as he gathered and preserved these sites forever in photographs. events in Syria and the Middle East in general. Amr Al-Azm is a founder and board member on The Day After project (TDA) and currently coordinates the Heritage Protection Initiative (HPI) for cultural heritage protection in Syria. Ross Burns worked in the Australian Department of Foreign
Affairs for 37 years until his retirement in 2003, with roles including Ambassador to Syria and Lebanon (based in Damascus, 1984–1987), as Minister in Paris (and Ambassador to UNESCO), and as Ambassador in South Africa (1992–95), Athens (1998–2001), and Tel Aviv (2001–2003). After his retirement, he completed a PhD at Macquarie University in Sydney on The Origins of the Colonnaded Axes of the Cities of the Near East Under Rome. He is the author of Damascus (Routledge, 2004) and Monuments of Syria (3rd edition, 2009).
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MOSCOW By Boogie
Welcome to Boogie’s Moscow. These are people sculpted by a brutal, concrete landscape, fighting to survive. This is a world of football hooligans, gang tattoos, boxing. Yet this is not misery porn: There is an inherent vitality in the violence--the enduring toughness--of these images. There is dynamism, there is esprit de corps, there is strength. “Raw” is a term that is perhaps overused, but Boogie’s photos truly assault the senses. However, the photographer’s arresting gaze is directly returned by his subjects, and an undeniable rapport and intimacy is felt by the viewer. We are witnessing something, above all, crucially human. From the artist behind It’s All Good (Miss Rosen Editions/ powerHouse Books 2006/2016), Boogie (powerHouse Books, 2007), and Belgrade Belongs to Me (powerHouse Books, 2008) comes an urban, industrial, but heart-wrenchingly humane new collection. You cannot look away. “The first time I visited Moscow, I felt like I had found my tribe. A big, powerful, lost tribe. Us Serbs always regarded Russians as our Orthodox Christian brothers; our historical friends and protectors. PHOTOGRAPHY - MONOGRAPHS - STREET PHOTOGRAPHY HARDCOVER, 128 PAGES, 7.5 X 10.33 INCHES ISBN 978-1-57687-906-1 $29.95 US/CAN
Born and raised in Belgrade, Boogie first began photographing during the Yugoslav Wars, which ravaged the Serbian territory throughout the 1990s. Growing up during these wars ignited Boogie’s attraction to the darker side of human existence; his distinctive photographs often focuses on rebellion, unrest, and the disenfranchised.
When you first meet them, Russians are very cold and reserved. But when they get to know you, they will give you everything. Russians are very strong: walking around Moscow, you see 50, 60, 70-year-old people who could rip your head off! When I’m in a foreign city, I shoot like a madman. I walk and shoot 15 hours a day. Moscow is huge; it’s very hard to cover photographically. It’s hard to do it justice. I think, with this book, I only scratched the surface.” --Boogie
Boogie moved to New York City in 1998. He has shot for high-profile clients including Nike, Puma, and Adidas, and has been published in world-renowned publications. His work has been seen around the world, including recent solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, Milan, and Tokyo. Boogie lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
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COCOONS
By Peter Steinhauer Foreword by Linda Benedict Jones Since 1993, Peter Steinhauer has documented the many facets of Asian culture, with a keen eye for architecture, urban landscape, and man-made structures and environments. On his first visit to Hong Kong in 1994, arriving at the old Kai Tak International Airport, Steinhauer noticed a very large structure encaged in bamboo and swathed in yellow material standing out beneath a canopy of clouds, glowing against the monochromatic, urban skyline. Hong Kong is the final stronghold of the bamboo scaffolders who once practiced their trade at construction sites throughout Asia.
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Reproduced in this collectible book are 100 remarkable images that reflect Steinhauer’s fascination with these hauntingly beautiful and monumental edifices, their bamboo scaffolding draped in brightly hued material. The title, Cocoons, is a natural choice for this body of work celebrating the giant wrapped, cocoon-like structures, later to be unveiled ceremoniously, revealing for the first time the brand-new facades.
Peter Steinhauer is an award-winning photographer whose work has been published in the monographs, Vietnam: Portraits and Landscapes (2002) and Enduring Spirit of Vietnam (2007; foreword by Michael Kenna), named Best Photography Book of the Year by PDN. Represented by leading international galleries, his work is held in museums and in private, corporate, and embassy collections. Born in Boulder, Colorado, Steinhauer lived in Asia for 20 years. He currently resides in San Francisco, California. Linda Benedict-Jones is an independent curator based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2015, she retired from her role as the first Curator of Photography at Carnegie Museum of Art. Prior to this, she was Executive Director of Silver Eye Center for Photography. She has also served as Curator of Education at The Frick Pittsburgh and she taught courses in the history of photography at Carnegie Mellon University for 18 years, from 1999 to 2017. Before moving to Pittsburgh in 1993, Benedict-Jones was Curator of The Polaroid Collection and director of Polaroid’s Clarence Kennedy Gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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SOMETIMES OVERWHELMING By Arlene Gottfried
A reprint, now in paperback, of one of Arlene’s best books. Gone but never forgotten, Arlene was beloved by many and her work deserves a larger audience. Start here. Before gentrification, New York City was a gritty and inspiring place. And in its midst was Arlene Gottfried, whose eye for the sublime caught it all. Sometimes Overwhelming, her second powerHouse book, is a manic yet romantic ode to the people of New York City in the 1970s and 80s. From Coney Island to a Hasid at Riis Beach’s nude bay to the disco nights of sexual abandon and the children in the original Village Halloween parade, Sometimes Overwhelming is a delightfully lighthearted look at the most outrageous people you might ever see.
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Arlene Gottfried, born in Brooklyn, graduated from
the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, and worked as a photographer at an ad agency before freelancing for top publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Life, and The Independent in London. Gottfried has exhibited at the Leica Gallery in New York and in Tokyo, and at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., among others. Her photographs can be found in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The New York Public Library, and the Maison Européenne de la Photographie in Paris. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Berenice Abbott International Competition of Women’s Documentary Photography. Gottfried is the author of Mommie (powerHouse Books, 2015), Bacalaitos & Fireworks (powerHouse Books, 2011), Sometimes Overwhelming (powerHouse Books, 2008), Midnight (powerHouse Books, 2003) and The Eternal Light (Dewi Lewis Publishing, 1999). A lecturer and a teacher, Gottfried lived and worked in New York City. She passed away August 8, 2017.
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AT THEIR HOME Marseille
By John Mack Foreword by Alain Moreau An American in Marseille. The internationally-renowned French port comes alive in John Mack’s five year’s worth of wanderings amongst its streets. As legend has it, several Greek galleys arriving from Phocaea (Asia Minor) in search of trade opportunities made landfall in 600BC upon the shores of Lacydon Creek. That very day, the king of the native tribe inhabiting the area was to marry off his daughter, Gyptis, to a native suitor. It just so happens that Gyptis, upon their encounter, falls for Protis, leader of the Greek expedition, and their marriage marks the founding of Massilia, present-day Marseille. PHOTOGRAPHY - STREET PHOTOGRAPHY - MONOGRAPHS HARDCOVER, 132 PAGES, 11.25 X 10.5 INCHES ISBN 978-1-57687-892-7 $50.00 US/CAN
John Mack, born 1976, is an American photographer
most noted for his work Revealing Mexico (powerHouse Books, 2010) which served as Mexico’s celebratory book commemorating both the Centennial of the Revolution and the Bicentennial of Independence. After graduating from Duke University, Mack served as production assistant in Antarctica on the IMAX film The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition, and began shooting photography shortly thereafter. In 2002 he moved to Mexico to work, leading to his 2005 collaboration with author Susanne Steines in the publication of Xibalbá: Lost Dreams of the Mexican Rainforest, the contents of which were showcased on Mexico City’s Rejas de Chapultepec (2008). At Their Home marks Mack’s fourth publication. He is currently represented in NY by Robert Mann Gallery.
Some 2,600 years later, photographer John Mack takes to the streets of Lacydon Creek—now famously known as Marseille’s Vieux Port—a vibrant, rugged, port whose evolution over the course of time has stayed true to its founding legend of foreign immigrants posed with the task of confronting native identities. Though a latent, explosive energy runs through these streets, the famous “Marseillais” identity provides a fragile yet strong, common ground which simultaneously both fortifies and merges one identity and another: distant friends; close enemies. Before being European, or French for that matter, Marseille is first Marseillais, and any visitor is indeed in “their house.” Comprised of 100 black-and-white street photographs taken between 2011 and 2016, Mack’s imagery challenges us to reflect upon our own identities and any inherent impediments they may pose in the merging with our native selves. “Who,” asks Mack, “are YOU chez eux?”
Alain Moreau was born in 1945. A doctor qualified in psychology, he retired from University teaching in 2005 along with his position as Editor-in-Chief of Faire Savoirs, a journal of social sciences. As an academic, he conducted research in the field of intercultural psychology, where he was particularly interested in the process of integration and identitybuilding of postcolonial immigrants in French society. He coordinated the book Plus Marseillais que moi, tu meurs! Migrations, Identities and Territories in Marseille (L’Harmattan, 2001). He still lives in Marseille, a city he has continued to explore and study for many years. POWERHOUSE BOOKS FALL/WINTER 2012 POWERHOUSE BOOKS FALL 2018
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BARFLIES Reykjavík 2
By Snorri Bros. Introduction by Jón Kaldal Afterword by Chuck Cors Barflies: Reykjavík 2 is a photography book by the Snorri Bros. portraying the regulars of iconic Reykjavík bar Kaffibarinn, which celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2018. Opening its doors for the first time in 1993, the downtown Reykjavík bar was an overnight hit, attracting artists, musicians, media types, and other cool cats and creatures of the night. The crowd was young and had a huge lust for life, the atmosphere was an irresistible mixture of sweet innocence and hardcore partying. Kaffibarinn has certainly evolved and matured, but perhaps the most beautiful thing about the place is that it still attracts a similar type of clientele as it did in the early days. PHOTOGRAPHY - ICELAND & GREENLAND - PORTRAITS & SELFIES HARDCOVER, 304 PAGES, 10 X 10 INCHES ISBN 978-1-57687-902-3 $50.00 US/CAN
As congenital beings of creativity, Eidar Snorri and Einar Snorri have been crafting their art since an early age. Brought together by their rebellious nature. First collaborations happened over breakdance and graffiti. Then they discovered their prime calling, photography and film. Jón Kaldal is a journalist and has been covering news in Iceland for more than 20 years. He was the founder and editor of Iceland Magazine, the editor of Iceland’s biggest daily newspaper, Fréttabladid, and has additionally worked at various other weekly and monthly magazines. He studied literature at the University of Iceland and French at Sorbonne University in Paris. He lives in downtown Reykjavík with his wife, two children, two cats, and a dog. He’s been a regular at Kaffibarinn since 1993. Chuck Cors was born in Laredo, Texas in 1967. He
attended NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, writing and directing Low Fidelity High, which received a Silver Hugo Award at the 1993 Chicago Film Festival. He subsequently directed music videos for bands including Mogwai, the Flaming Lips, and Russian Circles. In 2013, a selection his work was shown at the Museum of Modern Art. In addition to his visual explorations, he has been a writer all his life and currently works as a creative copywriter at Blue Lagoon Iceland.
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As the name suggests Barflies: Reykjavík 2 is a follow-up book. Again, the people portrayed are Kaffibarinn regulars. Some of the faces from the first book will be recognized, they’re just now a quarter of a century older. All of the portraits were shot on location at Kaffibarinn, and just as in the earlier book all the photos are framed in the same way: shot on the same Hasselblad camera, with the same 50mm silver lens, against the same background, and with the same lighting. The Snorri Bros. shot each subject only one time, seizing the person in front of the lens in a timeless portrait. How did Kaffibarinn manage to develop into the ultimate endurance runner of Reykjavík’s bar scene? Because it is a shapeshifter that can become what you want it to be. Its central location in the old part of Reykjavík makes it a perfect spot for a meeting over coffee or tea. For some, it is a daily pit stop for a relaxed pint or two on their way home from work. It can also be a quiet bar for early evening candle-lit encounters. At the opposite end of that spectrum, Kaffibarinn is the perfect latenight dive bar for Reykjavík’s nighthawks, open until the early morning. After midnight this small and cosy bar changes into one heaving dance floor with the DJ crammed into a corner next to the bar. Those are the electric nights that have cemented Kaffibarinn’s status and changed Reykjavík’s nightlife forever.
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I REFUSE FOR THE DEVIL TO TAKE MY SOUL Inside Cook County Jail
By Lili Kobielski Introduction by Vera Institute of Justice In late 2015, Lili Kobielski began taking portraits of inmates at the Cook County Jail in Chicago. Working in collaboration with Narratively and the Vera Institute of Justice with support from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation’s Safety and Justice Challenge, she began documenting the prevalence of mental illness among inmates at Cook County Jail in an effort to humanize the reality of mass incarceration in this country, often of its most vulnerable citizens.
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Lili Kobielski graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of
the Arts in 2010 with a BFA in photography, where she is now an adjunct professor of photography. In 2012, she received her master’s degree in digital media from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. Her work has been featured in Vogue, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Huffington Post, Narratively, Thirteen, Quartz, The Wilson Quarterly, Vice, and by The Vera Institute of Justice. Her first book, Rockabye, was published in 2015 by Daylight Books. She is a winner of American Photography 32, American Photography 33, and 34. Recent exhibitions include Re-Imagining a Safe Space at the Nathan Cummings Foundation and The Way We Live Now at the Aperture Foundation.
Mary Crowley is Vice President for Communications
and Public Affairs at the Vera Institute of Justice. A member of its leadership team, she leads Vera’s strategic communications efforts, particularly around its core priorities of reducing the use of jails, improving conditions for people who are incarcerated, and securing equal justice in an increasingly diverse America. In addition to overseeing numerous campaign launches, Mary has led a number of initiatives, including Vera’s recent rebranding and website overhaul, National Prison Visiting Week, and the communications around its 2015 International Sentencing and Corrections Exchange, which was featured in The Marshall Project and on 60 Minutes. POWERHOUSE BOOKS FALL/WINTER POWERHOUSE BOOKS FALL2012 2018
The Cook County Department of Corrections is one of the largest single-site pre-detention facilities in the world, with an average daily population hovering around eight thousand inmates. It is estimated that 35 percent of this population is mentally ill. According to a May 2015 report by the National Alliance on Mental Illness, Illinois cut $113.7 million in funding for mental health services between 2009 and 2012. As a result, two state-operated inpatient facilities and six City of Chicago mental health clinics have shut down since 2009. Emergency room visits for patients having a psychiatric crisis increased by 19 percent from 2009 to 2012, and a 2013 report by Thresholds found that the increase in ER visits and hospitalizations resulting from the budget cuts cost Illinois $131 million—almost $18 million more than the original “savings.” In addition, Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner’s refusal to pass a budget for more than two years has caused more than eighty thousand people in Illinois to lose access to mental health care. Two-thirds of nonprofit mental health care agencies in Illinois have reduced or eliminated programs, and a third of Chicago’s mental health organizations have had to reduce the number of people they serve. The Cook County Sheriff’s Office estimates that it costs $143 per day to house a general population inmate. But when taking into account the treatment, medication, and security required to incarcerate a mentally ill person, the daily cost doubles or even triples—yet now more patients than ever are being treated in jail rather than at a mental health facility. Cook County Jail has become one of the largest, if not the largest, mental health care provider in the United States.
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PAPER NEW YORK CITY By PaperMade
Punch out, fold up, and fuhgeddaboutit! Paper New York—the 11th in the PaperMade series—features 20 of New York’s iconic landmarks that will bring the city to life wherever you are! Each iconic structure is pre-cut, prescored, and easy to punch out and fold up into a 3-D object with instructions right on the page. Whether you’re a tourist, native, or simply an admirer from afar, “The City that Never Sleeps” can keep you awake for hours in your own home. Paper New York City masterfully combines paper craft with advanced paper engineering so no glue, tape, or tools are ever needed! Paper New York City inspires anyone ages 7 to 101 to keep their eyes to the sky and their feet firmly on the pavement while exploring the crossroads of the world. Paper New York City includes:
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The Statue of Liberty A Yellow Taxi Cab The Chrysler Building The Empire State Building The Freedom Tower & 9/11 Memorial and more!
PaperMade books and products make paper craft easy and fun! Transform simple, flat paper pages into functional 3-D toys, accessories, and objects. PaperMade™ is the creation of designer Daniel Stark in New York City. Stark holds a BFA from Parsons School of Design.
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LUCÍA THE LUCHADORA AND THE MILLION MASKS By Cynthia Leonor Garza Illustrations by Alyssa Bermudez
Lucía’s little sister Gemma wants to be a luchadora like her big sister, but she is more bumble and splat than pizzazz and seems to find trouble wherever she goes. When Gemma makes a ginormous hole in Lucía’s special silver mask, Lucía is incredulous and exasperated at how her little sister seems to get away with everything. But Lucía’s grandmother, Abu, has an idea: a trip to the mercado to get Gemma her very own lucha libre mask. There are so many masks to choose from, and Lucía can’t resist trying on masks and imagining all the new secret identities she could have if she had endless masks. When Lucía realizes she’s misplaced her special silver mask, a frantic search ensues with Gemma’s help. Lucía the Luchadora’s big heart is on display again in her latest adventure, where she learns that some things, including trouble making little sisters, are one of a kind.
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Cynthia Leonor Garza spent most of her childhood under the hot South Texas sun running around with her three brothers. She’s a journalist who has worked for several newspapers and her commentaries have appeared on NPR and in The Atlantic. Of all the lucha libre masks she owns, her favorite one is pink and gold. She currently lives with her two young daughters and husband in Washington, D.C. This is her first picture book. Alyssa Bermudez grew up in New York City, where
culture and liveliness fed her imagination. Her illustrations have appeared in animation, and on packaging and textiles. Alyssa, along with her mini Mexican folk art collection and two little dogs, can be found in the beautiful and faraway Tasmania, where she currently resides. Lucía the Luchadora (pow!, 2017) was her debut into the magical world of picture books.
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ROX’S SECRET CODE
By Mara Lecocq and Nathan Archambault Illustrations by Jessika von Innerebner Tech by Rodolfo Dengo A coding adventure for both young girls and boys, Rox’s Secret Code is ultimately a call to ignite the next generation of female leaders in tech, engineering, science, and math. When a tutu-and-leather-jacket-clad young inventor is asked to clean her room, she creates a new robot to get the job done. Chorebot first straightens out Rox’s hula-hoops and racecars, but when he runs downtown to sort the whole city, Rox, with the help of her neighbor Amar, must recode Chorebot in time to save the day. JUVENILE NONFICTION - GIRLS & WOMEN - ROBOTS HARDCOVER, 40 PAGES, 11 X 8.5 INCHES ISBN 978-1-57687-899-6 $17.99 US/CAN
Mara Lecocq is an entrepreneur with a mission to empower girls and women through initiatives that bring together creativity and technology. Formerly a creative director in advertising and technology, Mara was one of the only female leaders in her field to create digital products and campaigns for brands like Nike, Starbucks, and Verizon. Realizing that ambition starts young, Mara decided to found Secret Code, a customizable children’s media company that makes girls see themselves as heroes of powerful industries. Rox’s Secret Code is their first published book. Nathan Archambault was raised in Rhode Island and attended Syracuse University, where he received degrees in Advertising and English. After spending brief stints living in Washington, D.C., and Chicago, Archambault settled in New York City where he works as a freelance creative director and copywriter in the advertising industry. His work has been recognized by D&AD, the Cannes Lions, The One Show, and Time magazine. He now lives in Hastings-on-Hudson with his wife, two daughters, and Boris the English Bulldog. Jessika Von Innerebner loves illustrating stories of super-sheroes, skater rockstars, and baseball princesses. In spare moments, she can be found dancing, longboarding, traveling to distant lands, chasing adventure, and laughing with friends. Rodolfo Dengo is passionate about intersectional feminism, and is the proud father of a feisty little girl, Emma. Tinkering with all things mechanical and digital, he codes and leads technology for Secret Code’s customizable products. POW! FALL 2018
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Her robot would need: BATTERIES (his heart) A CIRCUIT BOARD (his brains) SCRAPS OF METAL (his skin)
A SPEECH SYNTHESIZER (his voice) PIPES AND WIRES (to connect it all together) A NINJA HEADBAND (just ’cause)
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SPECTACULARLY BEAUTIFUL A Refugee’s Story
By Lisa Lucas Illustrations by Laurie Stein A young refugee living in America learns to see herself as beautiful, in spite of physical and emotional scars from her troubled homeland, thanks to a gifted teacher.
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Lisa Lucas started her career writing for Reader’s Digest magazine. She later wrote extensively on literacy and health, scripts for movies and television, and historical fiction for middle readers. She was awarded the CIBC Children’s Miracle Maker Award and the Canada Post Community Literacy Award. Five years ago, she joined forces with Laurie Stein, a Canadian illustrator, and together they have created over 20 children’s books. Their work was recently recognized by The Canadian Children’s Book Centre.
Spectacularly Beautiful tells the story of Shahad, a refugee who has moved to a new country and started a new school with her new teacher, Ms. Truong. Shahad comes to school every day with perfectly braided hair tied in ribbons. But her hair can’t hide the scars on her face and leg that are painful reminders of the country she fled, making her feel less than beautiful, and different from her peers. Initially, Shahad finds life at her new school difficult until her teacher convinces her that she is not just beautiful...she is spectacularly beautiful. Little by little Shahad’s confidence is renewed and she is able to pay the kindness back to Ms. Truong so that she too can feel spectacularly beautiful.
Laurie Stein graduated in 1985 from the Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, now OCADU, after receiving her BA in Economics at Western U and graduating with a degree in Classical Animation from Sheridan College in Oakville. Since then, she has been illustrating freelance for books, magazines, apps, promotion, and advertising. Her clients include Scholastic, Pearson, MKids, Nelson, Readers’ Digest, Sick Kids Hospital, and more. She has worked extensively for a world-renowned children’s hospital and her work lines the walls and ceilings throughout. Laurie volunteers teaching painting to those living with cancer through the Art for Cancer Foundation. She lives in Toronto with her husband, three kids, and two big dogs.
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