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MADE IN BROOKLYN AN ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO THE BOROUGH’S ARTISANAL FOOD & DRINK MAKERS By Melissa Schreiber Vaughan and Susanne König
RAP TEES A COLLECTION OF HIP HOP T-SHIRTS 1980-1999 By DJ Ross One
WAR IS BEAUTIFUL A PICTORIAL GUIDE TO THE GLAMOUR OF ARMED CONFLICT By David Shields Afterword by Dave Hickey
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REBIRTH OF THE COOL
BLISS
ENERGY
DISCOVERING THE ART OF ROBERT JAMES CAMPBELL By Jessica Ferber Foreward by Marc Myers
TRANSFORMATIONAL FESTIVALS & THE NEO HIPPIE By Steve Schapiro Introduction by Theophilus Donoghue Afterword by Wavy Gravy
COCKTAILS TO GET YOU UP By Steph Russ, Photographs by Pete Deevakul
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LOST ROCKERS
QUARTERSNACKS
HEADBANGERS
THE REDISCOVERY OF GREAT FORGOTTEN MUSICIANS By Steven Blush with Paul Rachman and Tony Mann
10 YEARS, TF AT 1 By Quartersnacks
By Jacob Ehrbahn Introduction by Per Folkver
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WHAT WOULD ANYTHING BE WITHOUT EVERYTHING ELSE
PRIMORDIAL LANDSCAPES
A LAST GLANCE
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By Matt Olson
ICELAND REVEALED By Feodor Pitcairn, Poems by Ari Trausti Gundmundsson Introduction by Stephen Perloff
TRADING POSTS OF THE FOUR CORNERS By Edward Grazda, Essay by Willow Roberts Power
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DETROIT: UNBROKEN DOWN By Dave Jordano, Essays by Nancy Watson Barr, Dawoud Bey, and Sharon Zukin
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HAVANA BOXING CLUB By Thierry Le Goues
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STREETWALKERS
PARIS IN WINTER
By Scot Sothern
AN ILLUSTRATED MEMOIR By David Coggins
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PAPER MONSTERS
CONSTRUCTION MATTERS
By PaperMade
By Georg Windeck, Coedited by Lisa LarsonWalker, Sean Gaffney, and Will Shapiro
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THE NIGHT OUR PARENTS WENT OUT
MONKEY SUIT AN A TO Z OF WHAT YOU CAN BE By Mark Gonyea
By Katie Goodman and Soren Kisiel
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ROBOTS ARE RED
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1 ROBOT LOST HIS HEAD
A BOOK OF ROBOT COLORS By Marc Rosenthal
A ROBOT COUNTING BOOK By Marc Rosenthal
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FRONT COVER: from Made in Brooklyn (pg. 2-3) BACK COVER: from ENERGY (pg. 14-15)
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MADE IN BROOKLYN
An Essential Guide to the Borough’s Artisanal Food & Drink Makers By Melissa Schreiber Vaughan and Susanne König
Over the past two decades, Brooklyn has become the epicenter of the craft foods and drinks movement, fueled in equal parts by the desire to recreate the simpler life--with more hands-on, artisanal methods of making and delivering foods, liquor, beer, coffee, and other beverages--and a rejection of the methods and ingredients of modern agribusiness and the food retail industry. Brooklyn’s food and drink makers, restaurateurs and bartenders, storefronts and lab kitchens, and food trucks are changing the way we eat and drink by bringing back old techniques and recipes, and creating new ones that focus on small-batch, hand-crafted production, be they savory or sweet, distilled, brewed, or roasted.
COOKING/REFERENCE/TRAVEL Hardcover, 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches, 208 pages ISBN 978-1-57687-760-9 $35.00 US/CAN
Melissa Schreiber Vaughan is the co-author of The New Brooklyn Cookbook and a recipe developer and tester whose work has appeared in national food magazines and more than 20 cookbooks, including Real Simple, Saveur, Rachael Ray, Epicurious, Tasting Table, among many others, and the books In My Kitchen by Ted Allen, Relish by Daphne Oz, Braise by Daniel Boulud, and the forthcoming Breakfast: Recipes to Wake Up For by George Weld (April 2015). Melissa curates food events throughout Brooklyn and lives in Park Slope with her two budding foodies, Roan and Dor. Susanne König is the director of and buyer for The POWERHOUSE Arena in Dumbo, Brooklyn, renowned for hosting eclectic cookbook parties for many Brooklyn-based chefs and makers including Pok Pok, Fleischer’s, Kings County, Ample Hills, Sunday Suppers, Franny’s, Baked, and many more. She also curates an extensive collection of Brooklyn-made products. After spending her childhood and formative years in Germany, Belgium, and Paris where she worked at Sotheby’s and for a French art book publisher, she moved to New York in 2000. She works and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and son.
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MADE IN BROOKLYN is the first book to catalog the immense variety of food and drink items available in the trailblazing borough, featuring approximately 120 different Brooklyn makers, each profiled in depth, with sumptuous photography depicting the artisans’ craft and methods with personal histories, origins, anecdotes, tips, a few recipes, and more. Each Brooklyn maker will be featured on a double-page spread with exclusive images from their kitchens and work spaces. MADE IN BROOKLYN will also contain portraits of Brooklynites who propelled the Brooklyn food and drink makers’ scene such as Eric Demby and Jonathan Butler, founders of the Brooklyn Flea and Smorgasburg; Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Carlo A. Scissura, whose new Brooklyn Made certification program was just launched to authenticate bona-fide makers in the borough; and former Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowtiz, who really needs no introduction. MADE IN BROOKLYN will include a list of markets and liquor stores that feature an extensive range of food and beverages made in Brooklyn, along with informal walking tours categorized by neighborhoods (and open hours) where a variety of makers offer tours, tastings, and workshops. And what’s more--the book will include walking tour maps, website links and QR codes, and an address index of retail and liquor stores for purchasing Brooklynmade goods.
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RAP TEES
A Collection of Hip Hop T-Shirts 1980-1999 By DJ Ross One
RAP TEES is the ultimate collection of rare vintage t-shirts from hip hop’s heyday, 1980-1999, and a must have for any collector or hip hop fan.
DESIGN/FASHION/MUSIC-RAP Hardcover, 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches, 276 pages ISBN 978-1-57687-775-3 $35.00 US/CAN
Ross Schwartzman aka DJ Ross One is a world renowned DJ and collector of all things hip hop. As a DJ, he lives between New York City and Miami, and travels constantly to play the leading nightclubs in the United States and abroad. He was recently signed to Jay-Z’s Roc Nation Management. A self-proclaimed “rap nerd,” Ross has been collecting hip hop ephemera and memorabilia since he was 15, whether it’s classic boomboxes, rare records, zines, early hip hop flyers, or t-shirts. His passion for collecting has led him to accumulate some of the coolest rap-related items in the world (in his humble opinion).
One of the world’s foremost collectors of all things hip hop, DJ Ross One presents--for the first time ever--his much sought after collection of T-shirts in this lushly produced and detailed catalog showcasing over 500 of the genre’s best. RAP TEES outshines all other rap tee collections and will be the definitive reference for generations to come. Providing not only a valuable reference and style guide to these ultra-rare shirts, Rap Tees is also a unique chronology of the history of hip hop. Beginning with the earliest rap concert shirts from the Sugar Hill Gang and New York Fresh Fest, circa 1980-84, and spanning the next two decades, RAP TEES includes rare shirts from a wide selection of the who’s-who of the business including: Public Enemy, Boogie Down Productions, Beastie Boys, Eric B and Rakim, Wu Tang Clan, Jay Z, Nas, EMPD, and many, many more. Rap Tees bookends the golden age of rap with unique street-corner memorial shirts commemorating the deaths of The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur. Unlike typical rock n’ roll shirts, hip hop tees were often made in extremely limited quantities. The elusive concert, promotional, and bootleg tees included in this book are nearly impossible to find on the open market. Only DJ Ross One could collect these gems for you in this one-ofa-kind book, making Rap Tees the consummate guide for these unique pieces of music history. Rap Tees has appeal to the intersecting worlds of fashion, design, vintage, hip hop, pop culture -- and is generally all-around cool. Everyone loves a vintage rap t-shirt and they are proudly wearing them! The popularity of rap tees is skyrocketing and the availability of tees has never been tighter. Celebrities have been flocking to hi-end boutiques for rare 80s and 90s gems and snatching them up to be photographed at parties and out on the town.
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WAR IS BEAUTIFUL
A Pictorial Guide to the Glamour of Armed Conflict
By David Shields, Afterword by Dave Hickey What we see and read from the media we follow directly influences our perception of reality. How do the decisions made by one of the most important news organizations affect its readership and civic involvement with the government’s actions? The issues explored in this book are essential contemplation for any informed citizen and activist reader.
HISTORY/MILITARY/PICTORAL - LANGUAGE ARTS/ JOURNALISM Hardcover, 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches, 112 pages ISBN 978-1-57687-759-3 39.95 US/CAN
David Shields is the author of fifteen books, including Reality Hunger (named one of the best books of 2010 by more than thirty publications); The Thing About Life Is that One Day You’ll Be Dead (New York Times bestseller); Black Planet (finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award); and Remote (winner of the PEN/Revson Award). He has five more books being published over the next two years: I Think You’re Totally Wrong (2015 Knopf and also as a film directed by James Franco); That Thing You Do With Your Mouth (McSweeney’s); Life Is Short--Art Is Shorter (Hawthorne); Other People (Knopf). The recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and two NEA fellowships, Shields has published essays and stories in the New York Times Magazine, Harper’s, Esquire, Yale Review, Village Voice, Salon, Slate, McSweeney’s, and The Believer. His work has been translated into twenty languages.
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From The New York Times bestselling author (Reality Hunger, The Thing About Life Is That One Day You’ll Be Dead, etc.) David Shields, WAR IS BEAUTIFUL: A photo essay and deconstruction of a major news organization’s use of combat photography during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. David Shields has built up a legion of fans and when his skilled mind encounters such a hot-button topic as how a nation’s citizens are fed war coverage, well it’s a new place his intelligent readers will be pleased he took them. “WAR IS BEAUTIFUL is an astounding accomplishment— an astounding indictment, I should say. Hugely brave, persuasive, evocative, it places us inside our skins as the semi-conscious, complicit witnesses we’ve been for these past fourteen years now. The thing is breathtaking, and that Shields’s appropriative gestures have enabled it, and led up to something so outer-directed, so crucially relevant, is a great argument for their possibilities as a device for inquiry; it casts a beautiful light back on everything that got him to this point. I love it.” —Jonathan Lethem
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REBIRTH OF THE COOL
Discovering the Art of Robert James Campbell
By Jessica Ferber, Foreword by Marc Myers The story and work of a talented New York music photographer of the 50s and 60s whose life spiraled out of control and whose work was locked in obscurity--until now! A visionary of the Greenwich Village nightlife scene in the 1950s and 60s, photographer Robert James Campbell vigorously documented New York’s jazz era, and its metamorphosis into the beat and folk movements. Despite Campbell’s artistic prowess--evident in his arresting images of the people who would shape the American cultural landscape for generations to come--Campbell died alone in a homeless shelter in Burlington, Vermont in 2002. His identity, and former life as an esteemed photojournalist for The Village Voice and Downbeat Magazine, would only be revealed by the unlikely discovery by a young college graduate of his ephemera and personal belongings within a trove of cardboard boxes. PHOTOGRAPHY -MUSIC/JAZZ Hardcover, 7 3/4 x 10 1/4 inches, 176 pages ISBN 978-1-57687-762-3 $40.00 US/CAN
Robert James Campbell was born in New York City in 1936, but spent most of his childhood in Vermont and New Hampshire. He took up photography at a very young age, and music soon after. He spent time in the army in the 50s and as the proprietor of a coffeehouse featuring music and art in the early 60s before moving to New York and beginning his photography career in earnest. By the early 70s he had left New York for good, along with his career. Battling mental illness aggravated by his mother’s death, and his own stroke, he began living in a homeless shelter in Burlington in 1995 where he passed away in 2002. Jessica Ferber was born and raised in New York. She has been the sole researcher and curator of Robert James Campbell’s life and photography since her graduation from the University of Vermont in 2002. With a BFA in Sociology and Fine Art, she relocated to The Big Island of Hawaii in 2007 to run her own portrait photography company, Apropos Imagery. She now resides in Portland, Oregon, where she continues to promote Campbell’s work.
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THE REBIRTH OF THE COOL is the story of James Campbell as reconstructed by Jessica Ferber, and born from tragedy; Campbell, once a wildly talented artist, but wrought by mental demons, financial hardship, and health failure, had to give up his passionate work at what should have been the prime years of his career, having succumbed to his deteriorating body and mind. Campbell left New York and disappeared north into New England with little hope, but resolute to keep and care for his art he managed to diligently transport his negatives and images with him throughout his turbulent life, and ultimately with him into homelessness. At the height of his photographic career Campbell captured the likes of John Coltrane, The Modern Jazz Quartet, Philly Joe Jones, Count Bassie, Bud Powell, Richie Havens, Chuck Berry, and more. Shot onstage and off, the intimacy of the photos is moving and prescient. REBIRTH OF THE COOL collects the best of Campbell’s work, shot at legendary clubs like Birdland, The Village Vanguard, and The Gaslight Café, as well as street photography, international work from his time spent in Germany, and tour photography with Tim Buckley and others. The era in which Campbell photographed was brief and precious, and the content he left behind represents a time capsule--a rebirth and regeneration--of a moment that was flashpoint for the culture and heritage of New York, and the nation as a whole.
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BLISS
Transformational Festivals & the Neo Hippie
By Steve Schapiro, Introduction by Theophilus Donoghue, Afterword by Wavy Gravy Hippie culture in the new millennium as photogrpahed by renowned Vanity Fair photographer Steve Schapiro.
PHOTOGRAPHY/LIFESTYLE - SOCIAL SCIENCE/FOLKLORE & MYTHOLOGY Hardcover, 11 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches, 256 pages ISBN 978-1-57687-763-0 $60.00 US / CAN
Steve Schapiro is a distinguished journalistic photographer whose pictures have graced the covers of Vanity Fair, Time, Sports Illustrated, Life, Look, Paris Match, and People, and are found in many museum collections. He has published five books of his work, American Edge, Schapiro’s Heroes, The Godfather Family Album, Taxi Driver, and Then and Now In Hollywood.
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In BLISS: An Exploration of the Current Hippie Counterculture & Transformational Festivals, Steve Schapiro, famous for his photographs of the 60s--including HaightAshbury and the hippies of that era--documents the hippies of today and their lives in and out of transformational festivals. With a specific focus on a subculture of the current hippie counterculture known as “Bliss Ninnies,” these individuals are focused upon meditation and dancing as a way to reach ecstatic states of joy. The book features images from festivals across the country and provides an overview of a new contemporary hippie life within America. The 60s are still here. You just have to find where.
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Ginseng Up is my personal favorite brand of ginseng soda. It comes in a variety of flavors and can usually be found at health food stores. I like to go use the original flavor for this cocktail. If you can’t find Ginseng Up or a similar product, you can also make this using soda water and a liquid ginseng supplement, also available at health food stores and Whole Foods. Or, make it a Gin Gin Gin by using gin, liquid ginseng supplements, and ginger ale! BonUS REciPE: caRamEL aPPLE PoP (SHoT) caramel vodka Ginseng Up apple
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Honey Nut Cheerios is like a breakfast of coffee and cereal entirely in liquid form. You can drink this cocktail in place of breakfast, in addition to breakfast, or at any time completely unrelated to breakfast.
Ginseng is a great natural stimulant. it will help you feel more alert without the crash of a lot of other sugary energy products.
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DIRECTIONS: You can use any type of clear liquor for this drink, but I prefer Everclear. If Everclear is banned in your state, feel free to use any other high-proof liquor.
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All the Single Ladies was originally developed by my friend Cam Weeks at Jack Sprat in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Cam’s recipe called for at least four varieties of fruit fruit flavored vodka, a splash of cranberry juice, and a splash of Sprite. The end result is quite strong and ends up tasting like fruit punch. The above vodka flavors are just suggestions. Feel free to experiment with different combinations of fruit flavored vodka. “Fruit punch” has always been one of my favorite artificial flavors. There are a number of fruit punch flavored energy drinks on the market right now including: Rockstar Punched, NOS Fruit Punch, MTN DEW KICKSTART Fruit Punch, and Punch Monster Baller’s Blend.
Some dear friends and i celebrated my brother's 21st birthday with multiple rounds of all the Single Ladies. Long story short we ended the night/early morning with a three-hour radio show where i played Hall and oates on repeat while
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ENERGY Cocktails to Get You Up By Steph Russ Photographs by Pete Deevakul
Ever feel like your cocktails are missing a little extra oomph? ENERGY: Cocktails to Get You Up is here to deliver the big, bad, buzz you’ve been missing. Created by pioneering mixoligist Steph Russ, these high performance cocktails are specially crafted to help you maintain your focus and party harder and longer, by incorporating the latest, greatest energy drinks and supplements available on the market including Red Bull, ginseng drops, Monster, Amp, B-12, kombucha, 5-hour ENERGY, NOS, and many others. With both alcoholic and non-alcoholic blends, these bioactivated beverages are perfectly formulated to fit any occasion--whether you’re trying to get the most out of a night out at the club or to get in the zone for an afternoon playing video games at home, when you need that extra boost organizing a backyard birthday party or a hot spark for some frisky fun in the boudoir--ENERGY has you covered.
PHOTOGRAPHY - BEVERAGES - GENERAL Hardcover, 6 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches, 168 pages ISBN 978-1-57687-784-5 $29.95 US/CAN
Steph Russ studied Journalism at the University of North Carolina. She handles social media for record label Fade to Mind and can often be found behind the bar at Fade to Mind events. Russ has worked as a bartender in music venues, bars, and alternative spaces for nearly a decade. She is passionate about mixology and creating positive social experiences. Russ currently resides in Los Angeles, where she hosts frequent pop-up bars and elevates many parties with her stimulating cocktails.
ENERGY: Cocktails to Get You UP contains over 75 enhanced recipes to quench your thirst and pack a punch, and each drink is accompanied by a sizzling color photograph and instructions and descriptions to help you find the perfect flavor and formula to elevate your body, mind, and soul! Teenage Dream 1 part Malibu 1 part Monster Rehab (Tea + Pink Lemonade) 3 drops Mio Tropical Fusion
Pete Deevakul was born in Los Angeles, brought back and forth to Bangkok, and ended up in NYC. Deevakul earned his MFA in photography from Yale and is a regular contributor to White Zinfandel, a biannual arts publication. When The Jogging began paying contributors, he was the first to collect $25 for his submission surpassing 5,000 notes. He had an undeveloped, disposable film camera on view at NADA Miami Beach 2012, and has shown his work at W/------, Danziger, and Light Industry in New York and at Black Dragon Society in LA. Commercial clients he’s shot for that begin with the letter “B” include Bergdorf Goodman, Bentley, and Baccarat.
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He relocated his family to LA when and platform heels like ‘I’m here!’ And I was ongroundMotown competitive world. Gloria and Pam love affair with the late Marc Bolan generwas just seven years old so the kids could the piano like ‘I’m here!’ And there weren’t goingtaboo were talented but they never fit Gloria in. “We were ated plenty of problems. Today, Gloria should grow up around the music industry. Over time, to be two stars. So he just sashayed past me andhave afemale producers, but we were real“Elder women. Pam chip on her shoulder. Instead she dropped Jones,” as her dad was known, evolved out ofwore the limelight to become and a giant into a prominent preacher. He was handsome and walked off. full-length sablea mother furs and rock. She humanitarian activist. could preach and sing, and the ladies loved him. just wanted to write. I just wantedAccording to write and to Gloria, he became known as “the Richetta Jones wasthe bornmales October 19, 1948 in The Church Of God In Christ.” “But to make a long story short, there was aGloriaproduce. But said, ‘HowFrank canSinatra this of be? Ohio.no Sheroom grew up in the Pentecostal connection. Then I didn’t see him for anotherCincinnati, There’s for female writers.’ So now you church, singing in the choir of her parents, “I performed my first solo at the age of four,” two years, but each time there was always aminister hadRichard two girls saying, ‘How do we crack this?’” “Baby” Jones and his wife, Gloria recalls. “My mom thought it was a little child getting up to sing ‘Yes Jesus Loves Me.’ But stronger connection. Later on I asked him, ‘Didpianist LaVerne Jones. they said I got up there and belted out ‘When I you know about me when I was singer in 1965?’“I wasTheir first session, at Motown Studios in Detroit very blessed. At two years old, my uncle Lost My Baby I Almost Lost My Mind.’ The church and he said, ‘No, I didn’t know anything aboutwas my wasbabysitter. with The Funk Brothers and Dennis Coffey. He was a postman and an was not only shocked that I had performed that jazz musician in Cincinnati, song, but alsowear by my interpretation of the song.” you.’ But Marc was a mod, and the mods wereaspiring “I said, ‘Pam, we’re gonnaand go he in there and the children who represented ‘Tainted Love.’ hot pants. We have to break the sexual barrier…’ 2 But he’d never admit it.” We wore those hot pants in there; we had long Charo-type hair and Pam in her long sable furs. This is a caption that could describe the picture you’re looking at in one sentence or During this time, she met British-born lyricist Those musicians said, ‘Who are these ladies?’ two. It would likely also include some info about where the photo came from Pam Sawyer. The two became Motown’s first We said, ‘We’re songwriters and producers. female songwriter/producer team, behind What would you like to drink?’ Big mistake! We almost-smashes for The Jackson 5 (“2-4-6-8,” got them so toasted, they had to come back the “Christmas Won’t Be The Same This Year”), The next day and record for us. But we had to break “Suzanne de Passe [Motown exec] asked if we’d Four Tops (“Just Seven Numbers [Can Straighten the ice.” take The Commodores into the studio. And Out Your Life]”), Marvin Gaye (“My Mistake Pamela has an excellent ear. We took the band [Was To Love You]”), Gladys Knight & The Pips The newest Motown duo worked with the early in the studio and Walter Orange, the drummer, (“If I Were Your Woman”), Jr. Walker (“Take Me Commodores as producers of the group’s first hit, was the lead singer. Pamela was running around Girl, I’m Ready”), and The Supremes (“Have I “The Zoo (The Human Zoo).” Jones and Sawyer crazy, going, ‘He’s too James Brown! We want to Lost You”). In the Motown system, one couldn’t recognized the star qualities of Lionel Richie as go pop! We want to cross over!’ She always said, be both a singer and a writer so the tunes writmore than just another accompanying musician Lookin’ for a boy tonight ‘You make money when you cross over.’ Lionel ten by Pam and Gloria got credited to “LaVerne after he sang on a few of Gloria’s studio “scratch I know to some ofdoesn’t you out therebut itwe may not Richie remember called Suzanne Ware,” her mother’s birth name. demos” (reference tracks). CHRIS ROBINSON
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Chris Robinson grew up around Bridgeport, Connecticut. His musical exploration began on piano, and in fifth grade he picked up the French Horn. Then his life changed after watching The Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. At age 12, he studied classical guitar under a teacher who pushed him to write his own music and taught him to avoid classical music’s stuck-up, snobby aspects. Chris would come to love classical and rock and roll equally.
a stable hand in Roxbury, Vermont. Then he attended New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, where he spent much time at the notorious club The Boston Tea Party, where he saw incredible concerts with rising stars like Van Morrison, or The Faces with Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood. In 1970 Robison played keyboards in a Connecticut band that would become the touring lineup for Steam behind the hit “Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye.” Steam was a studio creation of songwriter-producer Paul Leka (“Green Tambourine”). The shady Leka toured a few incarnations of Steam, all previously extant club bands that temporarily changed their name to “Steam” and whose only job, as Robison put it, “was to start with ‘Na Na Na Na…’ and end the set with ‘Na Na Na Na.’” Robison’s fourpiece ensemble was employed as the second touring incarnation of Leka’s Steam. Later, they
“The first time I heard ‘I Wanna Hold Your Hand,’ it raised the hairs on the back of my neck. Rock and roll saved my life. I was already ‘alternative’ as much as I had these other urges, and was a juvenile delinquent, always in the principal’s office.” Chris played in a junior-high-school band with Billy Squier. He saw his first rock show, The Zombies and The Searchers, while working as 1
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LOST ROCKERS
The Rediscovery of Great Forgotten Musicians
By Steven Blush with Paul Rachman and Tony Mann LOST ROCKERS rescues a handful of talented musicians from the dustbin of rock history and shows when and where their promising careers went off the rails and why they should be paid attention to now. Hit songs, record deals, sexual adoration, private jets, stretch limos, and wealth: these are the trappings of musical success. But the pop stars living these seemingly glamorous lives are the exceptions in the music business and not the rule. Standing in the wings, just off stage and waiting, are those many talented and deserving musicians who just barley missed their big break.
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Steven Blush has written three books about rock music: American Hardcore (2001), .45 Dangerous Minds (2005), and American Hair Metal (2006). His journalism has run in publications including Spin, Details, Interview, Village Voice, and The Times Of London, and he is a contributing editor to Paper magazine. Blush got his start promoting punk shows in Washington, DC in the early 80s, and then moved to New York in 1986, where he published 52 issues of Seconds magazine through 1999. He worked as a New York nightclub DJ/promoter, noted for his early 90s sound designs for fashion designer Stephen Sprouse, and long-running “Röck Cändy” parties at Don Hill’s (1999-2006). He also wrote and co-produced the documentary American Hardcore (Sony Pictures Classics, 2006). Paul Rachman rose from punk music videos for the Bad Brains and Gang Green to become a top music video director at Propaganda Films, where he made videos for Alice in Chains, Roger Waters, Pantera, Joan Jett, KISS, and Temple of the Dog. He then directed award-winning short films and made his feature film directorial debut in 2000 with Four Dogs Playing Poker with Forrest Whittaker and Tim Curry. He also directed American Hardcore, and co-founded Slamdance Film Festival.
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LOST ROCKERS is about those musicians who at one point in time were on the verge of success but who never quite “made it.” Some of them were so close they could taste it, and others never had a chance. To become a star you need: talent, charisma, dedication, intelligence, energy, intensity, and a helluva lot of luck. These are all pieces in the puzzle--and for these lost rockers, the stars just didn’t align quite right. But the dawn of the 21st century offers these unknowns a chance for redemption. With new technologies offering easier ways of finding and listening to music, these artists might just be discovered anew by a generation of fans eager to mine the past in hopes of discovering something fresh. Timed with the release of a documentary film of the same name by acclaimed writer/ director Steven Blush, LOST ROCKERS offers a compelling narrative connecting the lives of different musicians and their strangely similar adventures in the entertainment industry. All of these almost-famous musicians have gripping backstories; they’ve also recorded some powerful music that you won’t believe you’ve never heard. In our nation, it’s all about second chances, so let’s start diggin’ in the crates at flea markets, garage sales, thrift shops, and swap meets, and uncover the lost secrets of America’s rich musical heritage. Everyone always loves stories of those who slipped through the cracks only to be “discovered” by a new generation.
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QUARTERSNACKS 10 Years, TF AT 1 By Quartersnacks
TF AT 1: 10 Years of Quartersnacks is an ode and a guide to the past decade of skatboarding in NYC, with pictures, lists, and stories about the best and worst people and places in the NY skate scene.
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Quartersnacks was founded in 2005 by a generation of New York skaters who grew up with the internet--sharing spots on message boards, and meeting people online to go skate with in other parts of the city. Since then, it has become the anti-authoritarian authority on East Coast skating. In 2014 Nike SB released a limited Quartersnacks edition dunk. In fall 2015, Quartersnacks will celebrate it’s 10th anniversary.
When you’re a kid, all you want to do is skate. Jobs, rent, relationships, student loans, “your future,” whether or not the door person at the bar you’re going to after skating will let you in with your board--none of these things matter. As you get older there are more things to worry about and less time to take care of them all. Everyone reaches a point when they can no longer skate for 10 hours straight. Being a kid pushing around the city with little concern for time, you learn to make your money stretch. When your pockets only contain some loose change, a Metrocard, and nuggets of wax, the quarter snack from the bodega is the most viable option. Once you can afford actual meals and overpriced New York rent, the quarter snack becomes a symbol of a simpler time, back when you were content with skating on a diet that could lead to diabetes if not phased out by 19. That’s when things were a lot more fun Quartersnacks, an online epicenter for the skate culture of downtown New York, never cared about “best-of-the-best skateboarding.” Instead, with acute self-awareness and biting humor, it chronicles the exploits of everyone bound together by a common interest in skateboarding in New York. Life isn’t a high school movie where a crew of the best skaters in town exclusively skates together and terrorizes the losers. In New York everyone skates with everyone else-”talent” is secondary. Quartersnacks captures the energy of a session in the city with your childhood friends, some younger kids you just met just last year when they moved here for college, their friends visiting from out of town, and some token pros, all skating together. In the ten years that Quartersnacks has been active, New York has become a national hub for skateboarding (at least in the warm months) and more kids are skating worldwide than ever. TF AT 1: 10 Years of Quartersnacks collects the best and worst from the site, along with new interviews, and documentation of the spots, the videos, the shops, and everything else that has changed and remained the same in New York skating in the past decade.
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HEADBANGERS
By Jacob Ehrbahn Introduction by Per Folkver The beauty and the chaos of intimate portraits of heavy metal rockers captured in the throes of musical ecstasy. HEADBANGERS is the rockin’ work of Danish photographer Jacob Ehrbahn, and a collaboration with dedicated heavy metal fans discovered at European metal festivals such as Denmark’s Copenhell, Germany’s Wacken Open Air, and Sweden’s Metaltown.
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Jacob Ehrbahn is a Danish photojournalist who has been a staff photographer at the Danish daily national newspaper Politiken since 2003. He has received numerous awards for his work, including being named second and third place Newspaper Photographer of the Year by POYi in 2003 and 2011. He’s a two-time World Press Photo winner with second and third-place prizes in 2004 and 2013. In 2013 he was named Photographer of the Year in Denmark for the second time. Ehrbahn lives in Espergaerde outside Copenhagen, Denmark with his wife, Louise, and their children Anna and Gustav. From time to time, Ehrbahn delves into labors of love on the side, away from his full-time job. Per Folkver (1953-2014) was for many years the Photo Editor-in-Chief at Politiken and a three-time member of the jury at World Press Photo. He published several books of his own photos, was a teacher and lecturer, as well as an invaluable source of inspiration for a whole generation of young Danish photographers.
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Heavy metal fans go totally berserk when listening to their music. Some shake their heads violently from side to side and back and forth, while others go all in and flail their entire bodies in time to the blast beats. In this collection Ehrbahn’s camera stops time and captures the moment of rapture headbangers experience at the pinnacle of their delight. Like a slow motion car crash or explosion, Ehrbahn finds the beauty in the chaos. When photographing, Ehrban rolls up his sleeves and gets in close. Witness headbangers in real live action and enter their intimate world disconnected from time and space. Theirs is a universe where one might transcend the frenzy and experience an altered state that brings calm, joy, and relief--states of mind which appear to be a stark contrast to the fierce music and their wild physicality. Everyone knows what headbanging is, but few would wish to be at the angle and distance Ehrbahn was at when he took these photos. Another example of what is so great about photography, bearing witness while removed from the constraints of time and place.
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WHAT WOULD ANYTHING BE WITHOUT EVERYTHING ELSE By Matt Olson
WHAT WOULD ANYTHING BE WITHOUT EVERYTHING ELSE is a peek inside the thought process of one of today’s leading voices in contemporary design.
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Matt Olson is co-founder of the experimental design studio RO/LU. Started in 2003 as a landscape office, soon after an “open practice” was established to create an environment in which the work could be followed rather than led. Since, they have created a sprawling body of work that involves objects, participation, performance, writing and institutions. Their work has been shown internationally and is in many esteemed private collections as well as the permanent collection at the Walker Art Center. Olson was featured in the book PIN-UP Interviews and has been covered by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Wallpaper, Surface and other major design and art publications. He lives in Saint Paul with his wife Amy and dog Mojo.
For over 10 years as a co-founding member of the forwardleaning, interdisciplinary studio RO/LU, Matt Olson has found that consistent mining of a wide range of influences is what allows him to deliver fresh and critically-acclaimed design. RO/LU does not rely on formal design training but instead depends on the partnership’s firm grasp of design and theory history as well as an unending curiosity and openness to all things. It is this passionate understanding and unique interpretation of the world around them which has been crucial to their success. While history typically shows one action influencing the next, Olson’s modes of thinking are anything but linear, and WHAT WOULD ANYTHING BE WITHOUT EVERYTHING ELSE provides a constellation of the references Olson routinely pulls from. Like the controlled chaos within a pinball machine, concepts and ideas are rigorously put through the course, bumping and ricocheting off each other until a path forward is created. From architecture to travel, film to a memorable restaurant experience, the changing of the seasons to a song overheard while walking on the street, there is nothing that Olson’s senses have encountered that is off-bounds for inclusion. RO/LU practices design with the unchanging principle that as opportunities arise something old can become something new, that we are made of the knowledge of others, and our post-internet zeitgeist is our perpetual connectivity to all things, and all input, stimulation, and inspiration should fully be put to use. WHAT WOULD ANYTHING BE WITHOUT EVERYTHING ELSE presents a fascinating tour through the thought process of a renowned and acclaimed contemporary designer. By sharing the excitement and energy contained in knowledge and celebrating the living aspects of encounters with the past, a map like none other emerges. “What makes RO/LU so interesting is that they straddle the tide line between art and design. That line is constantly moving, and they seem to always be just ahead of it, helping to create the zeitgeist.” —Wall Street Journal
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PRIMORDIAL LANDSCAPES Iceland Revealed
By Feodor Pitcairn, Poems by Ari Trausti Gunðmundsson, Introduction by Stephen Perloff “It is the tonic of wildness that can renew us. Wild places, with their reservoir of genetic diversity, can sustain us both naturally and spiritually...” —Feodor Pitcairn
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Feodor Pitcairn is a born naturalist, whose talents as an award-winning photographer and cinematographer convey the wisdom and beauty of nature’s most wild environments. Over several decades, Pitcairn’s work has been recognized internationally in environmental books and publications, documentaries, film-festivals, and galleries and exhibitions. Ari Trausti Gunðmundsson, renowned Icelandic geophysicist and author, is an active lecturer, documentarian, broadcaster, International Explorers Club member, and writer in the fields of geology, volcanology, astronomy, environmental science, and mountaineering, with over 30 published books. Receiving prizes for science communication, Ari also writes novels, poetry, and Laxness Literary Prize-winning short stories.
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PRIMORDIAL LANDSCAPES: Iceland Revealed elegantly explores the diverse and raw beauty of Iceland’s extraordinary landscapes through striking images by photographer and naturalist Feodor Pitcairn and the inspired words of geophysicist, author, and poet Ari Trausti Guðmundsson. This collection illuminates topographical phenomenon shaped and crafted by the most powerful natural forces on earth: rain and glacier melt form thunderous waterfalls and rivers that carve at the earth’s surface; arctic snow and ice peppering the land and sea with striking shapes and patterns, feeding the climate and water cycles; lava flows from active volcanoes that build vast, textured landforms where life can begin and take hold. These are the beautiful and extraordinary results of our planet’s most fundamental geological processes. Pitcairn’s passion for photography lies in his desire to convey the truest account possible of the natural environments he explores and strives to protect. Each PRIMORDIAL LANDSCAPES image was made with a digital Hasselblad camera, delivering superior color, detail, and clarity. A map and index provide intriguing geological and cultural information about the content of the photographs.
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A LAST GLANCE
Trading Posts of the Four Corners
By Edward Grazda, Essay by Willow Roberts Powers A photodocumentary project focusing on the Native American trading posts of the American West then (1970s) and now (2000s). Starting in the 1870s, trading posts were where Native Americans interacted with the Anglo world, bartering wool, rugs, baskets, and other items they made for coffee, cooking oil, flour, and other goods they needed. The trading posts functioned not only as stores but also as post offices and general gathering places to become the defacto hubs of cultural exchange. Trade by barter largely ended in the 1930s. Today a few still function as trading posts and U.S. post offices, but many became convenience stores and gas stations while others were abandoned and fell prey to decay and vandalism. Some remain in part but only marked by a stray wall or foundation stone. PHOTOGRAPHY/TRAVEL Hardcover, 9 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches, 120 pages ISBN 978-1-57687-767-8 $40.00 US/CAN
Edward Grazda is the author of Afghanistan Diary 1992-2000 (powerHouse Books, 2000) and Afghanistan 1980-1989 (DerAlltag, 1990). His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Double Take, and Granta and is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Public Library, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and MoMA, New York among others. He has received grants from The New York Foundation for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has been a MacDowell Colony Fellow four times. NY Masjid: The Mosques of New York with text by Jerrilynn Dodds and photographs by Edward Grazda was published by powerHouse Books in May 2002. In 2009, with Jeff Ladd and Valerie Sonnenthal, Ed founded Errata Editions--a publishing company dedicated to making important rare photo books accessible with its Books on Books series. Grazda teaches at The International Center of Photography in New York.
Since 1970, Ed Grazda has been searching for and photographing these buildings and in this book the reader is led on a tour showing those that are still functioning all the way to those that have succumbed to the ravages of time and neglect. Combining vintage photographs with more contemporary images of the same locations from 2008 to today, A LAST GLANCE reminds us of the fascinating relationship and close exchange of culture that once existed between Native Americans and settlers and how each passing year makes its mark upon everything and our understanding and acceptance of our shared histories.
Willow Roberts Powers is a retired anthropologist. She has spent a few decades in the Southwest, working on various reservations for tribes and pueblos. She knew trading posts when they were just past their heyday but still commercial centers of small communities and has interviewed traders, their customers, and many others about trading.
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DETROIT:
Unbroken Down
By Dave Jordano, Essays by Nancy Watson Barr, Dawoud Bey, and Sharon Zukin A loving look at the city of Detroit and the residents fighting to survive and revive their neglected hometown. Dave Jordano returned to his hometown of Detroit to document the people who still live in what has become one of the country’s most economically challenging cities. Stricken with mass abandonment through years of white flight to the suburbs, unemployment hovering at almost three times the national average, city services cut to the bone, a real estate collapse of massive proportions that stripped the tax base bare, and ultimately filing the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, Jordano searches for the hope and perseverance of those who have had to endure the hardship of living in a post-industrial city that has fallen on the hardest of times. PHOTOGRAPHY/LANDSCAPES Hardcover, 12 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches, 160 pages ISBN 978-1-57687-779-1 $50.00 US/CAN
Dave Jordano was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1948. He received a BFA in photography from the College for Creative Studies in 1974. In 1977 he established a successful commercial photography studio in Chicago, shooting major print campaigns for national advertising agencies. Jordano has exhibited nationally and internationally and his work is included in the permanent collection of several private, corporate, and museum institutions, most notably the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts Boston; the Museum of Fine Arts Houston; the Detroit Institute of Arts; the Detroit Historical Museum; The Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University, Evanston; the Harris Bank Collection; and the Federal Reserve Bank.
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From the lower southeast side where urban renewal and government programs slowly became the benchmark of civic failure, to the dwindling enclaves of neighborhoods like Delray and Poletown, blue-collar neighborhoods that have all but vanished, Jordano seeks to dispel the popular myth perpetrated through the media that Detroit is an empty wasteland devoid of people. Through the many acquaintances he encounters along the way, from a homeless man who decided to build his own one room structure on an abandoned industrial lot because he was tired of sleeping on public benches, to a group of squatters who repurpose long abandoned houses on a street called Goldengate, Jordano brings to the forefront a message of hope and endurance to an otherwise greatly misunderstood and misrepresented city. DETROIT: Unbroken Down is not a document solely about what’s been destroyed, but even more critically, about all that has been left behind and those who remain to cope with it.
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PEPPER There is no moon, no stars, no ceiling, just black from the ground up. Pepper takes my hand and leads me down a path I can’t see and up a bushy hill underneath the Hollywood Freeway. A few yards away, burning tobacco, floating red fireflies, low moans and evil spells. People who I can’t see, vampires and werewolves. Somebody barks like a dog, he says, Bark bark motherfucker. Six yards above me cars are flying by, hissing like snakes at ninety miles an hour. I’m high on drugs, crack cocaine, which at this moment, I highly recommend. Pepper knows the inhabitants of this impromptu cemetery. She knows the route around the gravestones and deadends. Somebody flips their Bic and I see the painted backdrop of my dreams. I tell Pepper, Go thataway.
PROMISE She tells me she’s been down here in Skid Row for twelve years. She tells me she lost her children a long time ago and I don’t ask for details. She exposes a tit and in the process shows me her visible scars. She smiles at the camera and I make an exposure.
UNIQUE She tells me her name and I take her to a walking tunnel that crosses under the Hollywood freeway. Into the long dark hole we go, like rats in a drainpipe. She tells me she doesn’t want to show her face so I open my bag and give her the choice of the clown mask or the Bedouin mask. She asks me why do I want to take her picture and I tell her because I’m an artist. I take a marker from my bag and draw a red sun on the wall. She tells I’m crazy and I say, yeah, but it’s the good kind. She says that’s good because she’s known a bunch of the other kind. We can’t hear the freeway overhead and it seems like it should be creepy but it’s not.
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STREETWALKERS By Scot Sothern
Real, gritty photogrpahs of Los Angeles’ 80s underbelly with a primary focus on prostitues and junkies. In the mid 1980s photographer and writer Scot Sothern embedded himself in the dark inner-city hallows of Los Angeles and took photographs and wrote about what he saw. He shone a light upon the discarded people whose daily existence consisted of glass pipes and slaps across the face, men and women who never had a chance in this world. In 2011, 25 years after beginning the project, this documentation led to his first solo show, Lowlife, at the notorious Drkrm Gallery in Los Angeles. Previously dormant, undiscovered, and rejected by a plethora of editors and curators, this show brought much attention to Sothern and lead to two books: one of photographs called Lowlife and a memoir called Curb Service. Sothern’s work has since become an Internet live wire eliciting either accolades or condemnation from anyone who comes across it.
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Scot Sothern spent 40 unsettled years hustling freelance photography. His first solo exhibit, Lowlife, was held at the Drkrm Gallery in Los Angeles in 2010. His first book, Lowlife, was published in the U.K. by Stanley Barker in 2011 and as an ebook by powerHouse Books in 2013. The British Journal of Photography called Lowlife, “The years’ most controversial photobook.” Curb Service: A Memoir, was published by Soft Skull Press in July 2013. Sothern has been in solo and group shows on both coasts of the U.S. as well as in Ottawa, London, and Basel. Scot writes a twice monthly column, with photographs, “Nocturnal Submissions,” for VICE. Sothern maintains a blog, www.scotsothern.com
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STREETWALKERS is a bleak, real examination of street prostitution in contemporary America by an artist and writer whose own illicit compulsions and literary muscle inform every page. This is the complete collection of Sothern’s work from the Lowlife years as well as from recent shoots. In addition, included are his features from “Nocturnal Submissions,” his online column for VICE magazine. With new work and previously unpublished stories, this 30-year project is now final and should continue to cause strong reactions from all who see it.
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PARIS IN WINTER
An Illustrated Memoir By David Coggins
PARIS IN WINTER combines fanciful ink and watercolor drawings by American artist and writer David Coggins with charming vignettes about his family’s annual New Year’s sojourns to Paris, which, because of their unending love for the city, they’ve been taking together for almost 20 years. This memoir of poetic, lighthearted stories highlights the family’s passion for art and food, fashion and social life. Family rituals--from having lunch each January at the delightful Le Grand Vefour to haunting favorite antique shops and seeking out-of-the-ordinary spots, like a little known garden or a gypsy circus--are interspersed with serendipitous moments: hearing Bono sing “Happy Birthday” to a friend in a bistro, adopting an abandoned lap dog, and the simple pleasures of Parisian street life. Coggins’s delicate and intimate drawings capture classic Parisian scenes as well as family and friends against the backdrop of the elegant City of Light under the cloak of winter. Across cafés and hotels, apartments and galleries, the family mixes with a lively group of Parisian and international actors, designers, writers, and students. Furthermore, Coggins weaves in fascinating bits of the city’s history and artistic lore, from Victor Hugo’s interior designs to the painting that legend has it started Impressionism, to delight Francophiles all over. TRAVEL - ESSAYS & TRAVELOGUES Hardcover, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches, 240 pages ISBN 978-1-57687-777-7 $24.95 US/CAN
David Coggins is the author and illustrator of the travel memoir, The Nostalgic Heart, recipient of an Independent Publisher Book Award. His eight-volume set of daybooks, published under the pseudonym Robert Carolina, is in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. His artwork has been exhibited in Paris, London, and Santiago, Chile as well as in U.S. galleries and museums. Coggins has designed for a number of U.S. theaters including Théâtre de la Jeune Lune, Guthrie Theater, and La Jolla Theater. His set for “The Deception” was chosen for “From the Edge,” a U.S. exhibition on performance design that toured New York, Prague, and Moscow. He lives in Minneapolis.
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The many charms of Paris are an eternal delight to readers around the world and there is always room for another memoir of what the city’s cultural and gustatory pleasures mean to one person and his family. “An alluring delight to the eye, ear, mind and palate. David Coggins, who clearly knows Paris inside-out, celebrates the world’s most beautiful city in all her beguiling facets. He wears his culture and his sophistication lightly - but you will learn a lot along the way.” —William Boyd, author of Solo and Sweet Caress
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HAVANA BOXING CLUB By Thierry Le Goues
Boxing is one of the most popular sports in Cuba and its fighters are recognized the world over for their skills and finesse. The Cuban national team holds more Olympic medals in the sport than any other country, making the nation a hotbed of emerging global champions. Statesanctioned and promoted since the revolution, amateur boxing’s potential for fame and relative wealth makes it a beacon for impoverished youth yearning for a better life. Shot all across the Republic of Cuba, HAVANA BOXING CLUB documents amateur boxing schools and the aspiring, determined boys studying the sweet science. Compiled over the course of eight years, French photographer Thierry Le Goues spent countless hours in the complex network of training facilities that abound in the island nation, developing relationships with the coaches and their young progeny, following the rise and fall of countless talents and wannabes.
PHOTOGRAPHY - SPORTS Hardcover, 10 x 13 inches, 256 pages ISBN 978-1-57687-783-8 $60.00 US/CAN
Thierry Le Goues was born in Brest, France in 1964 and lives in Paris. Le Goues began his career as a fashion photographer in 1986 working for Conde Nast. His fashion, documentary, and editorial photography has appeared in publications internationally including Vogue and l’Uomo Vogue, Lei, Per Lui, Amica, and Marie Claire in Italy; Glamour, Vogue Homme International, and Vogue in France; Arena, Vogue, i.d., The Face, Harpers Bazaar, and Elle in England; and Harper’s Bazaar, Allure, Detour, Interview, Vogue, W, and Flaunt in the United States. Le Goues is the author of Soul and Popular (both published by powerHouse Books).
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The resulting images are of young fighters struggling, sweating, and fighting to overcome anything thrown in their way--inside the ring and out. Le Goues’ luscious tritone black and white photographs depict rigorous training camps, boxing rings erected in the streets of small villages in the Cuban countryside, the lows of these young boxers struggling with abject poverty and crushing defeat, and the ultimate highs of rising up victorious over all obstacles and challengers. The pure instinct to survive against overwhelming odds and to realize their dreams of boxing on the national team is both startling and beautiful. HAVANA BOXING CLUB captures the sport’s arresting beauty and unrelenting brutality.
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CONSTRUCTION MATTERS
By Georg Windeck Co-edited by Lisa Larson-Walker, Sean Gaffney, and Will Shapiro A contemporary look at how construction and construction materials influence arcihtecture and vice versa. CONSTRUCTION MATTERS examines the way that architects understand and respond to technological innovation through the creation of new types of spaces, and the materials through which an architectural idea finds its physical realization. Understanding the properties of different materials is indispensable for the creation of architecture that is original, powerful, and meaningful.
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Georg Windeck is an architect, educator, and researcher. He is licensed in Berlin and New York, and his broad range of activities also includes urban planning and historic preservation. He received his Diplom-Ingenieur in Architecture with distinction at the Technische Universität Berlin and also studied sculpture at the Hochschule der Künste. Windeck is an Associate Professor at The Cooper Union, and also teaches at the School of Visual Arts, New York. Lisa Larson-Walker is a visual artist, writer, and photo editor. She has worked at Newsweek, the Daily Beast, and Slate. She is an alumna of The School of Art of The Cooper Union, currently living in Brooklyn. Sean Gaffney is an architectural designer living and working in New York. He is a graduate of The Cooper Union, where he received a Menschel Grant for his thesis project and is now a visiting critic.
Organized into chapters on the major methods of construction--masonry, concrete, steel, and wood-CONSTRUCTION MATTERS examines specific technologies that experienced major transformations in the last century, or were newly invented: a new material, jointing technique, or fabrication procedure for example. The architectural application of this invention is then analyzed with building case studies that are selected based on an obvious formal relationship between the building’s form and the new type of construction that it incorporates--ranging from prewar designs in the United States and Europe to recent projects in Asia, and includes built projects as well as significant design proposals. CONSTRUCTION MATTERS develops a way of thinking about architecture in relation to technology that transcends a particular building method or design task. The architect and educator Georg Windeck conducted independent research that ranges from scientific advancements to philosophical contemplations. The multi-facetted discussion that emerges from this work is developed in close collaboration with artist and journalist Lisa Larson Walker, with mathematician and architect Will Shapiro, and with artist and architect Sean Gaffney. If we are to rescue the physical substance of architecture--the Matter of Construction--and create a practice that celebrates both the physical and the metaphysical aspects of building, we must understand how and why construction matters.
Will Shapiro received his Bachelor of Architecture from The Cooper Union. Recently he developed modeling software that allows users to understand how the structures they design react to forces in real time.
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PAPER MONSTERS By PaperMade
“Punch out, Fold up and...Voila! Instant Scary Freaks. PAPER MONSTERS--the 4th book in the PaperMade series--is a title that everyone will love. Each of the 20 unique monster designs are pre-cut, scored, and perforated so anyone can simply punch them out and fold them up with easy-to-follow instructions. Whether you’re a fan of things that go bump in the night or not, you’ll find these scary creatures too cute to scream at. They instantly become awesome 3D objects to play with and display. Paper Monsters deftly combines paper craft with advanced paper engineering so no nightmares with glue, tape, or tools ever happen! Best of all, they won’t keep you up at night, unless you’re playing with them...Paper Monsters make great companions for ages 7 to 101 and they’d never hurt a fly.
CRAFTS AND HOBBIES/PAPERCRAFTS/CHILDREN/TOYMAKING Hardcover, 9 1/2 x 12 1/4 inches, 40 pages ISBN 978-1-57687-743-2 $14.95 US/CAN
PAPER MONSTERS include: Frankenstein, because he’s expected to show up at these events A pretty friendly ghost The Creature from a very dark green lagoon Nose Feratoo, who can smell any sweets a mile away Catherine Zeta Zombie....sexy, for a zombie
PaperMade(TM) books are easy to understand and assemble--no glue, tape, or tools are EVER needed. They’re a safe, simple and nostalgic alternative to digital games that are fun for the whole family. PaperMade(TM) -- Paper craft for the masses.
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FALL 2015 THE NIGHT OUR PARENTS WENT OUT BY Katie Goodman and Soren Kisiel ILLUSTRATED BY Kat Tuong-Bui 42-43 MONKEY SUIT An A to Z of What You Can Be BY Mark Gonyea 44-45 ROBOTS ARE RED A Book of Robot Colors BY Marc Rosenthal 46-47 1 ROBOT LOST HIS HEAD A Robot Counting Book BY Marc Rosenthal 48-49
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THE NIGHT OUR PARENTS WENT OUT By Katie Goodman and Soren Kisiel
A silly, absurdist tale that parents who need a night out can read aloud to reassure anxious little ones that they are indeed coming home! What do mom and dad actually do on “date night?” In this picture book, two children who stay at home with a sitter when their parents go out for for an evening imagine a series of increasingly wild adventures that befall mom and dad during the course of date night. The babysitter plays along, while reassuring them that their parents are quite capable of handling a nightout--even one that includes runaway hot air balloons, camel caravans, and a daring rescue that requires using Mom’s high heels as climbing crampons. (And to think they claimed to be going for just dinner and a movie!)
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Katie Goodman and Soren Kisiel, a wife-husband team, are the creators, writers, and directors of the comedy troupe Broad Comedy. They are also the co-founders of the Equinox Theatre Company, they run a summer theater camp for kids in Montana, and they do other co-things that led to co-parenting in recent years. Katie and Soren been nominated for the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award for their work in theatre. Their popular YouTube video, Sh*t Park Slope Parents Say, is a gently satirical take on modern parenting in Brooklyn. In addition to Broad Comedy, Katie has written for O, The Oprah Magazine and is the author of Improvisation For The Spirit: Live A Creative, Spontaneous, and Courageous Life Using the Tools of Improv Comedy. She is a nationally touring public speaker and leads retreats under the title “Improvisation For The Spirit.” Soren is also an internationally touring improv comedian and an award-winning playwright. Katie Goodman and Soren Kisiel reside in Brooklyn, NY.
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MONKEY SUIT
An A to Z of What You Can Be By Mark Gonyea
A playful board book starring a little monkey who presents the letters A to Z and offers 26 quirky answers to the question “What do you want to be?” Fans of Mark Gonyea’s recent board book Counting on Letters will recognize his bold graphics and bright, saturated colors, which create a high-contrast illustrations that keep kids’ attention focused and are ideal for learning letters.
NONFICTION / ALPHABET Board, 9 1/4 x 7 1/4 inches, 28 pages ISBN 978-1-57687-772-2 $10.95 US/CAN
Mark Gonyea is the author of COUNTING ON LETTERS (POW! 2014) and several other books for children, including A Book About Design, and A Book About Color, as well as the popular webcomic series Mr. Oblivious. Mark spent the better portion of his early life watching tv, going to movies, and playing video games, little realizing this was to be the essential ground work for a successful career in cartooning and graphic design. Mark lives in Burlington, Vermont.
MONKEY SUIT: An A to Z of whAt You CAn bE is a lively look at the alphabet for learners who’ve grasped the basic shapes of the letters and are ready to explore words. Authorillustrator Mark Gonyea presents a little monkey who “tries on” a silly selection of roles that a child might dream of playing (elephant, ninja, optometrist--wait, what?) while the word and the letter it begins with are featured next to the illustration. With no discernable gender, the monkey is a perfect stand-in for any kid, and encourages young readers to imagine themselves in any of these roles.
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ROBOTS ARE RED
A Book of Robot Colors
By Marc Rosenthal
ROBOTS ARE RED, the third entry in acclaimed illustrator Marc Rosenthal’s toddler-friendly, lift-the-flap Robot Concepts series, presents a collection of vividly hued, retrofuturistic, humorously hapless robots to introduce kids age 2 through 4 to basic colors. Each spread focuses on a single color. Turning to a particular spread, the reader will see an image of a single robot in the color being introduced, opposite the name of the color written in that same hue in bold text. Upon lifting the flap, the child will find a busily detailed robotic scene-all presented in the same color--in which to search for the initial image, which is hidden in there among the colorful details.
NONFICTION / COLORS / SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Hardcover, 7 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches, 20 pages ISBN 978-1-57687-773-9 $17.95 US/CAN
Marc Rosenthal’s illustrations appear regularly in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and many other publications. Marc has both written and illustrated numerous children’s books including Phooey! (a Kirkus Reviews Best Children’s Book of the Year) and Archie and the Pirates, and illustrated many others, including the bestselling Bobo series, written by his wife, Eileen Rosenthal, I Must Have Bobo!, I’ll Save You, Bobo!, and Bobo the Sailor Man, as well as Mogie: The Heart of the House, written by Kathi Appelt. Marc lives in the Berkshires in Massachusetts.
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1 ROBOT LOST HIS HEAD
A Robot Counting Book By Marc Rosenthal
ONE ROBOT LOST HIS HEAD follows the travails of a slightly clumsy robot who can’t quite keep track of his own head, and the smart robot pals who help him find it. A gatefold on each spread opens to reveal a visual punch line that teaches kids basic number skills while making them laugh. Each number is presented as a bold numeral, with a matching number of robots shown on the spread.The robots, though not human, are nevertheless full of charm, and their antics, captured perfectly in Marc Rosenthal’s colorful, funny illustrations, are sure to crack up toddlers and preschool-age kids.
NONFICTION / COLORS / SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Hardcover, 7 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches, 20 pages ISBN 978-1-57687-773-9 $17.95 US/CAN
Marc Rosenthal’s illustrations appear regularly in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and many other publications. Marc has both written and illustrated numerous children’s books including Phooey! (a Kirkus Reviews Best Children’s Book of the Year) and Archie and the Pirates, and illustrated many others, including the bestselling Bobo series, written by his wife, Eileen Rosenthal, I Must Have Bobo!, I’ll Save You, Bobo!, and Bobo the Sailor Man, as well as Mogie: The Heart of the House, written by Kathi Appelt. Marc lives in the Berkshires in Massachusetts.
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