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DREAMER WITH A THOUSAND THRILLS The Rediscovered Photographs of Tom Palumbo Edited with text by Patricia Bosworth Photograped by Tom Palumbo pg. 6-7
THE HUNT Navigating the Worlds of Art and Design By Patrick Parrish
UNDOCUMENTED Immigration and the Militarization of the United States-Mexico Border By John Moore
FEED YOUR PEOPLE Recipes for Big-Hearted, Big-Batch Cooking
By Leslie Jonath and 18 Reasons Photographed by Molly De Coudreaux
pg. 8-9
WE CAME FROM FIRE Photographs of Kurdistan’s Armed Struggle Against ISIS By Joey Lawrence
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R.F.K. A Photographer’s Journal By Harry Benson
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THE DAUGHTERS OF CHIBOK Tragedy and Resilience in Nigeria’s Northeast
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ALI
By Steve Schapiro Text by Jack Olsen
By Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode Photographed by Akintunde Akinleye pg. 16-17
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A DETROIT NOCTURNE
By Dave Jordano Text by Karen Irvine
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DROP
By Byron Hawes
ANONYMOUS Million Masks By Anthony Tafuro
UNDER MY WINDOW
Written by Michal Safdie Introduction by Ari Shavit
By Brian Finke
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pg. 26-27
THE NEW YORK PIGEON Behind the Feathers
LOWER EAST AND UPPER WEST New York City Photographs 1957–1968
By Andrew Garn Text by Emily S. Rueb and Rita McMahon
pg. 28-29
HIP HOP HONEYS
pg. 30-31
COCOONS
By Peter Steinhauer
By Jonathan Brand Introduction by Julia Dolan
pg. 32-33
LEVON AND KENNEDY Mississippi Innocence Project
Photographs by Isabelle Armand Text by Tucker Carrington
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pg. 36-37
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FRONT COVER: from THE NEW YORK PIGEON Behind the Feathers By Andrew Garn Text by Emily S. Rueb and Rita McMahon (pg. 30-31) BACK COVER: from UNDOCUMENTED Immigration and the Militarization of the United States-Mexico Border By John Moore (pg. 12-13)
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KEITH ROWE The Room Extended
PAPER SWEETS
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pg. 42-43
By PaperMade
By Brian Olewnick
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DON’T ASK A DINOSAUR By Matt Forrest Esenwine Illustrated by Louie Chin Written by Deborah Bruss
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I HATE EVERYONE
Written by Naomi Danis Illustrated by Cinta Arribas
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FRANNY’S FATHER IS A FEMINIST Written by Rhonda Leet Illustrated by Megan Walker
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clockwise from top left: Jane Fonda, Anne St. Marie, Tom Palumbo with Patricia Bosworth, Jack Kerouac, Models in Pink Dresses (unidentified assignment)
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DREAMER WITH A THOUSAND THRILLS The Rediscovered Photographs of Tom Palumbo Edited with text by Patricia Bosworth Photographed by Tom Palumbo “He was one of a kind, my Tomaso. Bursting with energy and curiosity, he was always trying something new. Like flying a plane. Or baking bread. He couldn’t swim, but he learned how to water-ski at Lake Tahoe anyway to show off to Yul Brynner’s wife! He once biked from New York to Montauk—that’s over one hundred miles—just to see if he could do it and because then he could walk along a deserted stretch of beach, collect some shells, and then visit his first mentor, the photographer James Abbe Jr., who had a shack on the dunes. “Tom was sexy, ebullient, self-involved. He could be a good guy, bad guy, tough and tender, Jekyll and Hyde. He took pictures of himself constantly. He dressed stylishly—Armani raincoats, expensive scarves flung about his neck. He looked great in hats. He collected sports cars; we used to drive out to the Hamptons late at night when there was no traffic, so we’d go very fast.” PHOTOGRAPHY - FASHION & ACCESSORIES - MONOGRAPHS HARDCOVER 240 PAGES 10.5 X 13.75 INCHES ISBN 978-1-57687-807-1 $75.00 US/CAN
Patricia Bosworth, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair for over two decades, is an award-winning journalist and best-selling biographer and memoirist. She was awarded the Front Page Award and was a Senior Fellow in Columbia’s National Arts Journalism Program, where she received a grant to research Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman, a New York Times bestseller. Bosworth has taught literary nonfiction at Columbia University and Barnard College, and currently co-chairs the Biography Seminar at New York University. She is at work on a second memoir, The Men in My Life, which picks up where Anything Your Little Heart Desires (Touchstone, 1998) left off, and chronicles her young adulthood and her years as an actress. Bosworth lives in New York City.
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--Patricia Bosworth, from the Introduction He lead one helluva life: international travel, photographing beautiful women for the two best fashion magazines in America (the venerable Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar), and learning and perfecting his craft under the watchful, masterful eye of legends Alexey Brodovitch, Carmel Snow, Diana Vreeland, and Alex Lieberman. His excellent eye, and easy and adventuresome spirit, meant that he was always game and able to capture whomever was in front of his camera in the most flattering light. People just felt comfortable around Palumbo. That’s why we see models striking his poses, and celebrities like Miles Davis (smiling no less!), Comden and Green, a young Mia Farrow and Jane Fonda, and Jack Kerouac sitting before his camera with utter ease. These rediscovered photographs, celebrated in their time but not seen in decades, are presented here in book form, for the first time ever, by award-winning author and Palumbo’s widow, Patricia Bosworth.
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FEED YOUR PEOPLE
Recipes for Big-Hearted, Big-Batch Cooking By Leslie Jonath and 18 Reasons Photographed by Molly De Coudreaux Food brings a community together.
COOKING - METHODS - QUANTITY HARDCOVER 320 PAGES 8.75 X 10 INCHES ISBN 978-1-57687-804-0 $39.95 US/CAN
Leslie Jonath is a book packager specializing in cookbooks. Before launching Connected Dots media, she was a Creative Director at Chronicle Books where she produced many successful titles, leveraging partnerships with high-profile causes and foundations, including The Pleasures of Slow Food by Corby Kummer; From Our House to Yours: Comfort Food to Share with Meals on Wheels of San Francisco; and The Edible Schoolyard with renowned chef and restaurateur Alice Waters. Her most recent titles include the Miette Bakery Cookbook (over 150,000 sold to date), The Flower Workshop, Give Yourself a Gold Star, The Model Bakery Cookbook, The Amazing (mostly) Edible Science Cookbook, and The Little Pleasures of Paris. She lives in San Francisco. Molly De Coudreaux is a San Francisco-based photographer who thrives on telling stories about food and culture. She works collaboratively to capture the essence of each moment through nuance and gesture. Her clients include Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Dandelion Chocolate, Scribe Winery, and Al’s Place, and she is currently working on a book project with Bernal Cutlery.
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With recipes for generous, family-style, big-batch cooking by chefs, cooks, and big-hearted people, Feed Your People will inspire people to feed their people, both literally and spiritually. The book will feature festive foods to gather around from a Soup Swap Dinner by Kathy Gunst to a big pot of vegan greens and grits from Bryant Terry (AfroVegan); a gnocchi-making party with Angelo Garo to a summertime aioli feast by Georgeanne and Ethel Brennan; to a pig roast by Ryann Farr and Rodney Scott, and a lemon blueberry trifle for 20 by Emily Lucchetti. Most importantly, each recipe includes specific and helpful strategies, including make-ahead plans, freezing, equipment, and scaling and serving instructions as well as how to “make it to take it” (i.e. make a second batch of soup, cookies, Bolognese, etcetera for takeaway)! Cooking for crowds isn’t a new concept, but cooking brilliantly for those crowds, with honest ingredients that feed the soul, is a valuable skill. In the spirit of community, we are co-authoring the book with 18 Reasons, a nonprofit organization in San Francisco that hosts community dinners and Cooking Matters programs and is committed to “empowering our community with confidence and creativity to buy, cook, and eat good food every day.” Illustrated with gorgeous how-to and event photography, this book will be a practical, beautiful celebration of the art of cooking for your people and empower readers everywhere to cook together and feed each other.
18 Reasons strives to empower the community through cooking classes and community dinners. Passionate, committed teachers include farmers, winemakers, ranchers, crafters, and cooks, share their stories, skills, and knowledge on everything from knife skills to world cooking. As well, people can share a community dinner with friends, taste home-cooked meals from around the world, and forge new friendships through food. Beyond its classroom walls, 18 Reasons offers Cooking Matters classes in low-income communities on how to make quick, healthy, affordable, and delicious meals. Professional chefs and nutritionists volunteer their time for the Cooking Matters program, which reaches over 2,000 adults and kids every year.
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The Hunt
Navigating the Worlds of Art and Design By Patrick Parrish
In this little gem of a book, Patrick Parrish of the eponymous Patrick Parrish Gallery in New York offers advice, stories, gossip, and pointers on how to go about acquiring top quality art and design from sources as different as flea markets and the top auction houses in the world. With over 25 years of hard-won experience in the trenches as a picker, a collector, and dealer he tells you what to do, what not to do, and how to negotiate the often-confusing labyrinths that the international galleries, auction houses, and even flea markets can put forth. Hailed by The New York Times as “one of the top dealers in the world for cutting-edge contemporary design,” Parrish holds nothing back, providing a unique outlook into what is sometimes, for good reason, a secretive and cliquish world. Often what you don’t do or say is more important than what you do, and Parrish gives insider perspective on what dealers and auction-house experts want to see and hear from their prospective clients.
ART - STUDY & TEACHING - DESIGN - ESSAY PAPERBACK 160 PAGES 6.2 X 8.4 INCHES ISBN 978-1-57687-851-4 $19.95 US/CAN
Patrick Parrish is known as the eye behind the popular blog and Instagram feed, MONDOBLOGO. He has contributed to Apartamento, Bad Day, and 01 magazine with his photography and interviews of Murray Moss, Martino Gamper, RO/LU, and Project No. 8. He was chosen by Volume Gallery as one of their “Observers: the intellectuals and tastemakers of design culture” for the book Temperature 2012 published for “The Home Front: American Design Now” a public programming series at the Museum of Art and Design in New York City. He was also listed by the website L’ArcoBaleno as a “mover and shaker” in the New York design scene. In 2013, Patrick helped produce a book on one of his favorite designers, Carl Auböck: The Workshop, with powerHouse Books. In 2016 The New York Times profiled him as one of the five most important dealers of contemporary design in the world. Pieces from Patrick’s extensive collection have sold to the Brooklyn Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, and Museum of Modern Art in New York. He is a curator, collector, sometimes painter, and always on the hunt for what’s new.
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Angelo Lelii, custom ceiling lamp, 1954
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UNDOCUMENTED
Immigration and the Militarization of the United States-Mexico Border By John Moore
John Moore has focused on the issue of undocumented immigration to the United States for a decade. His access to immigrants during their journey, and the U.S. federal agents tasked with deterring them, sets his pictures apart. Moore has photographed the entire length of the U.S. southern border, and traveled extensively throughout Central America and Mexico as well as to many immigrant communities in the United States. His work includes rare imagery of ICE raids, mass deportations, and the resulting widespread fear in the immigrant community. For its broad scope and rigorous journalism, Undocumented: Immigration and the Militarization of the United States-Mexico Border is the essential record on the prevailing U.S. domestic topic of immigration and border security.
PHOTOGRAPHY - PHOTOESSAYS & DOC - SOCIAL SCIENCE HARDCOVER 176 PAGES 9.5 X 12.25 INCHES ISBN 978-1-57687-867-5 $50.00 US/CAN
John Moore is a special correspondent for Getty Images. He has photographed in 65 countries on six continents and was posted internationally for 17 years, first to Nicaragua, then India, South Africa, Mexico, Egypt, and Pakistan. He returned to the U.S. in 2008. Moore has won top awards throughout his career, including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, World Press Photo honors, the John Faber Award and the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club, Photographer of the Year from Pictures of the Year International, the NPPA, and Sony World Photography Organization. Moore is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied Radio-Television-Film. He lives with his family in Stamford, Connecticut.
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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 L. 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 been consistently sought out by a number of 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 been recently 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 coalitions most trusted partner, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). With little official government support and just light weapons; brothers, sisters, former university students and refugees that 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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R.F.K.
A Photographer’s Journal By Harry Benson
PHOTOGRAPHY - SUBJECTS & THEMES - CELEBRITY PAPERBACK 144 PAGES 10 X 12 INCHES ISBN 978-1-57687-898-9 $35.00 US/CAN
Award-winning Scottish photojournalist Harry Benson, CBE began his career at the weekly Hamilton Advertiser newspaper and moved to the Scottish Daily Sketch after his exclusive interviews in prison with Scottish mass murderer Peter Manuel. By 1959 Harry had moved on to London’s Fleet Street, working for Lord Beaverbrooks’s Daily Express. Harry traveled to America with the Beatles in 1964, and never looked back. Under contract to LIFE Magazine for 30 years, Harry has photographed for major magazines including Time, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, French Vogue, Quest, Paris Match, Forbes, Town & Country, Architectural Digest, People, and The London Sunday Times Magazine.
As a friend, advisor, and attorney general to his brother, John F. Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy stood at the heart of Washington politics. He is remembered today as a compassionate, articulate, and optimistic man—a friend to the poor, an avid civil rights advocate, a champion for peace. World-renowned photojournalist Harry Benson’s unprecedented images capture intimate family outings and outdoor adventures with friends alongside every moment of Kennedy’s brief but unforgettable presidential run, from his announcement of his candidacy on St. Patrick’s Day, 1968, to the fervor and excitement of his days on the campaign trail, all the way through his shocking assassination in Los Angeles and the long, sweltering funeral procession to Arlington Cemetery. Here, in elegant photographs, are glimpses of the exhilarating successes and challenging setbacks of RFK’s campaign, the chaos of that fateful night in LA, and the mourning of hundreds of thousands after their hero was struck down. Re-released in paperback format in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Kennedy’s death, and supplemented with excerpts from his speeches and from Benson’s own journals, RFK: A Photographer’s Journal is a fitting tribute to an extraordinary man and the legacy he left behind.
University. An Honorary Fellow of London’s Royal Photographic Society, he has twice been named NPPA Magazine “Photographer of the Year.” In 2017 he received the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Center of Photography. Harry is the only photographer who has photographed the last 12 U.S. Presidents— from Dwight D. Eisenhower to Donald J. Trump.
The documentary Harry Benson: Shoot First, which chronicles Harry’s 65-year career was released in December 2016 by Magnolia Pictures. In 2009, Harry was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for service to photography. Harry has received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from both St. Andrews University, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow University, and Glasgow Caledonian POWERHOUSE BOOKS FALL/WINTER 2012 POWERHOUSE BOOKS SPRING 2018
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THE DAUGHTERS OF CHIBOK:
Tragedy and Resilience in Nigeria’s Northeast By Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode Photographed by Akintunde Akinleye
In the middle of the night on April 14, 2014, terrorist group Boko Haram abducted 276 girls from their secondary school’s dormitory in the town of Chibok, northeastern Nigeria. Over the following days, 57 girls managed to escape. For two years, 219 girls remained missing. Then, in May 2016, the first of the missing students, Aisha Nkeki Ali, was found by the Nigerian military. In October 2016, 21 of the missing girls were released by Boko Haram in a deal brokered by the International Red Cross and the Swiss Government. Two more girls were found by the military in the last few months of 2016. 195 girls are still missing.
PHOTOGRAPHY - POLITICAL SCIENCE - WOMEN’S STUDIES HARDCOVER 224 PAGES 9 X 12 INCHES ISBN 978-1-57687-859-0 $49.95 US/CAN
Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode is an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and human rights activist. Born into a distinguished Northern Nigeria family of male scholars, Oyebode is the first girl in the family not to be married at 13. She is the founder and CEO of Nigeria’s Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF), a non-governmental organization that promotes good governance and socio-economic change on the African continent through education and capacity building. The MMF is one of the organizations driving the reconstruction of the northeast of Nigeria devastated by the Boko Haram insurgency. The MMF also has an ongoing discussion with the Nigerian government regarding taking over the care of the captured female suicide bombers in the military’s custody and the rescued Chibok girls. Oyebode is a co-convener of the Bring Back Our Girls (BBOG) activist group and drives the group’s activities in Lagos, southwest Nigeria. She is also a member of the Women’s Leadership Board of the Harvard Kennedy School, Women and Public Policy Program.
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Words have a power that numbers don’t have. During the last four months of 2015, in the heat of the worst of the insurgency, Aisha Muhammed-Oyebode, the CEO of the Murtala Muhammed Foundation (MMF) in Nigeria, embarked on a project to interview, photograph, and document the accounts of the parents of each of the missing girls. The MMF’s team managed to meet the relatives of 201 of them, and also interview some of the 57 escaped girls. The Daughters of Chibok is a collection of these interviews and photographs-- a tribute to the girls--which aims to capture their lives before the abduction and to highlight how their families have struggled to cope afterward. For the families of the girls, and for the Chibok community, the trauma of this experience remains a daily reality.
Akintun de Akinleye is the first Nigerian Photographer to have been awarded a prize in the prestigious World Press Photo, Netherlands in 2007 with an iconic photograph of a man rinsing shoot from his face at the scene of an oil pipeline explosion in Lagos, December 2006. An award fellow of the National Geographic Society and resident fellow of the Thami Mnyele Art foundation in Amsterdam, Akintunde was nominated for the Prix Pictet photography award for his work on sustainability: Delta, A vanishing wetland. He lives in Lagos and works for Reuters in Nigeria.
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By Steve Schapiro Text by Jack Olsen In June, 1963, on assignment from Sports Illustrated, peerless portrait photographer Steve Schapiro traveled to Louisville, Kentucky to spend some time with the young Olympicchampion boxer Cassius Clay, and accompany him on a road trip to New York City. At 21, Clay was yet to adopt the mantel of Muhammad Ali, but his boastful persona, intelligence, black pride, and sharp tongue were already fully formed. Over the course of their five days together, Schapiro—a master at developing trust and capturing unguarded intimacy on film— revealed both sides of the young Ali: the one side posing and preening for the camera, ever conscious of his image; the other, unguarded and unselfconscious, in candid images of the young fighter at home with his family and immersed in his community and neighborhood.
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Ali collects the best of Schapiro’s images of the late fighter; many in print for the first time ever. They offer a glimpse of a star on the rise. It is an indelible portrait of the early life of one of the most talented, graceful, controversial, athletic, and influential American figures of the 20th century.
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 can be found in many museum collections. He has published seven books of his work, American Edge (Arena Editions, 2000), Schapiro’s Heroes (powerHouse Books, 2007), The Godfather Family Album (Taschen, 2010), Misericordia (powerHouse Books, 2016), Taxi Driver (Taschen, 2010), Then and Now (Hatje Cantz, 2012), Bliss (powerHouse Books, 2015), and Bowie (powerHouse Books, 2016). Jack Olsen (1925–2002) was an author and journalist, whose 33 books have been published in 15 countries and 11 languages. Olsen’s journalism earned a number of awards, including the National Headliners Award and the Chicago Newspaper Guild’s Page One Award. The New York Times described his work as “a genuine contribution to criminology and journalism alike.”
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A DETROIT NOCTURNE By Dave Jordano Text by Karen Irvine
In many rust-belt cities like Detroit, people’s lives often hang in the balance as neighborhoods support and provide for each other through job creation, ad-hoc community involvement, moral and spiritual support, and a well-honed Do-It-Yourself attitude. With all the media attention about Detroit’s rebirth and revival, it is important to note that many neighborhoods throughout the city have managed to survive against the odds for years, relying on local merchants and cash-only businesses who have stuck it out through decades of economic decline.
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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 is the author of Detroit: Unbroken Down (powerHouse Books, 2015) and has exhibited nationally and internationally. 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; Library of Congress, Division of Prints and Photographs; the Harris Bank Collection; and the Federal Reserve Bank.
Determination and a strong sense of self-preservation: Detroit’s citizens manage to survive by maintaining a strong sense of self-preservation combined with a healthy sense of communal connection. All of these residences and places of business, whether large or small, are in many ways symbols of the ongoing story that is Detroit, and a testament to the tenacity of those who are trying desperately to hold on to what is left of its social and economic fabric. These photographs speak to that truth without casting an overly sentimental gaze. The nocturnal images offer a chance to view the locations in an unfamiliar light, and offer a moment of quiet, melancholy reflection.
Karen Irvine is Curator and Associate Director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago. She has organized over forty five exhibitions of contemporary photography, at the MoCP and other venues including the Hyde Park Art Center; Rockford Art Museum; Lishui International Photography Festival, China; Daegu Photography Biennale, South Korea, and the New York Photo Festival.
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ANONYMOUS: Million Masks By Anthony Tafuro
“Remember, remember the fifth of November.” Since November 5th of 2013, thousands have gathered in cities around the world to take part in the Million Mask March. The event allows ordinary citizens to share in the efforts of renowned hacktivist group, Anonymous, and keep the legacy of Guy Fawkes alive. Photographer Anthony Tafuro’s quest to document rebels and subversive strains of activity in today’s popular culture persists. Now, Tafuro’s fascination with Anonymous, a loosely associated international network of activist and hacktivist entities, has led him to delve deep into the network of Internet “gatherings,” with hundreds of photographs from marches and behind the scenes meetings.
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Anthony Tafuro, author of the cult skateboarding book, BA. KU.: Cult Skating and Dark Rituals, (powerHouse Books, 2015) urges, “Don’t follow corporate pinstripes! They’re not great.” The author expresses extreme appreciation to all of the members that allowed a camera and flash into their lives.
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HIP HOP HONEYS By Brian Finke
What do you call the women in hip-hop videos? The often nameless ones who are featured dancing or posing, whose presence signals baller status for the usually male rapper they are there to support—are they hip-hop honeys, video vixens, video girls, models, dancers? Are they revered, over-sexualized, demeaned, or empowered? Are they stars or set pieces? Who are the women you see in videos? Photographer Brian Finke spent three years hanging out backstage at music-video shoots, getting to know these “hip-hop honeys,” as he calls them. Finke brings his style of robust portraitrature and documentary photography to the women who appear in countless videos for artists like Busta Rhymes, Kanye West, and many other artists.
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Brian Finke’s visual commentary on American and global culture focuses on authenticity and the absurdity of everyday life. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City, Finke received a BFA in photography. He is the author of 2-4-6-8: American Cheerleaders and Football Players (Umbrage Editions 2003), Flight Attendants (powerHouse Books, 2008), Construction, (DECODE Books, 2012), and U.S. Marshals (powerHouse Books, 2014). His first monograph was named one of the best photography books of 2004 by American Photo magazine. Also in 2004, Finke was one of the 12 artists nominated for the International Center for Photography’s annual Infinity Award, and he won a prestigious New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. A self-described “stylized documentarian”, his work has been placed in nine museum collections in the US and abroad, and he loves to shoot for editorial clients like National Geographic and the New York Times and commercial clients like Delta Airlines and Southern Comfort. A native Texan, Brian loves barbecue, and is never without a Nikon or his trademark pair of checkered Vans.
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By Byron Hawes Lately, the world of the Hypebeast has led to a virtual destruction of the traditional delineation between street and ‘high’ fashion. Limited edition pieces enjoy global cult status, draw thousands of hopeful purchasers, and can resell immediately for up to 10-20x retail immediately after release on sites like Grailed. There is an entire culture surrounding these launches, or ‘drops’. Streetwear aficionados travel intercontinentally to attend them, almost like concerts, and wear their rarest shoes and gear, flexing for each other while chatting, comparing, and hoping to cop one-time-only limited pieces. Kids rock grails and geek out, like an OG subreddit come to life. These lines comprise some of the most interesting fashion events in the world, and are fast becoming streetwear’s equivalent of the fashion shows that haute ateliers host each year at fashion weeks in Paris, New York, Milan, and beyond.
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Byron Hawes is a New York-based writer and designer. He is the founder and editor of the underground design magazine The Après Garde, and a co-founder of I-V, a boutique architecture and design firm that has done projects including a recording studio and offices for OVOsound, Campari’s Canadian HQ, and Spin Toronto. He currently serves as contributing editor for architecture and design at Hypebeast, and senior editor for Flofferz, and was previously a consulting editor at Architectural Digest China and Greater China Editor for BlackBook Magazine, as well as having contributed to publications including Monocle, HighSnobiety, Vice, Wallpaper, and Azure, among others. Additionally, he has authored or co-authored the books Unbuilt: Conceptual Architecture, We are Wanderful: 25 Years of Design & Fashion in Limburg, and Modern Tropical: Residences in the Sun.
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THE NEW YORK PIGEON Behind the Feathers
By Andrew Garn Text by Emily S. Rueb and Rita McMahon The New York Pigeon reveals the unexpected beauty of the omnipresent pigeon as if Vogue magazine devoted its pages to birds, rather than fashion models. In spite of pigeons’ ubiquity in New York and other cities, we never really see them closely and know very little about their function in the urban ecosystem. This book brings to light the intriguing history, behavior, and splendor of a bird that we frequently overlook. The result of eight years of passionate inquiry is a photographic study of the birds’ power and allure (as seen on the cover of New York magazine and the New York Times). The dramatic, hyper-real individual studio portraits capture the personalities, expressiveness, glorious feather iridescence, and deeply hued eyes. High-speed strobe photography illustrates pigeons’ graceful flight and dramatic wing movements (as featured in Audubon magazine).
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Andrew Garn is a native New Yorker who grew up surrounded by pigeons. He has been photographing, rehabilitating, and observing Columbia Livia for eight years. After 2008, when he exhibited photographs, video installations, and sculptures of pigeons at A.M. Richard Fine Art in Brooklyn, NY, he has continued to photograph them. Documenting the entire spectrum of development, including full-grown pigeons, newborns, babies, and “squeakers”, he has grown to love these birds. Garn is a fine art and editorial photographer whose work has been widely exhibited and appeared in the pages of numerous magazines, including the New York Times Magazine, Fortune, Forbes, Interview, Vogue, Vibe, Time, Newsweek, Der Spiegel, French Photo, Elle Décor, New York, and Bloomberg LP. He is also the recipient of grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Graham Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the J.M. Kaplan Fund, among others.
While The New York Pigeon is primarily a photography book, it also tells the five-thousand-year story of the feral pigeon. Why are pigeons so successful in cities and not in the countryside? Why do they have such diverse plumage? How have pigeons adapted to survive on almost any food? Why are pigeons able to fly up to 500 miles per day but rarely do? How did Harvard psychologist B.F. Skinner teach pigeons to do complicated tasks, from tracking missile targets to recognizing individual human faces? Why can pigeons see in the ultraviolet light spectrum and half of their brain is used for visual perception? The New York Pigeon lovingly describes and illuminates the beauty of nature that is alive in our midst. With this book, the beautiful, savvy, graceful, kind pigeon will be invisible no more.
Rita McMahon is the founding director of New York City’s only wildlife rehabilitation facility, the Wild Bird Fund. The nonprofit facility, operated by volunteers and vet science trainees, helps over 4,500 injured birds per year.
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LOWER EAST AND UPPER WEST
New York City Photographs 1957–1968 By Jonathan Brand Introduction by Julia Dolan
The vibrant people and street life of New York City’s Lower East Side and Upper West Side in the 1950s and 1960s are presented in this book in black-and-white photographs taken by Jonathan Brand. A census taker and later an advertising copywriter, Brand chronicled life as he encountered it on his walks through the city. The book offers striking images of New Yorkers engaged in everyday pursuits, from the Bowery to Riverside Park, juice stands and barbershops, to the US: theater of the streets. With an introduction by Julia Dolan, The Minor White Curator of Photography at the Portland Art Museum, Oregon, this is the first book from a photographer who developed his art alongside many of the best-known in his discipline. Brand’s photographs capture the energy, odd juxtapositions, and intimate moments of life in mid-century New York City. STREET PHOTOGRAPHY - HISTORY - 20TH CENTURY HARDCOVER 136 PAGES 9 X 10.75 INCHES ISBN 978-1-57687-855-2 $40.00 US/CAN
Jonathan Brand has been photographing daily life since 1956. A New Yorker and Vermonter, he has also lived and worked in Scandinavia and Portland, Oregon. He developed his photography through study with some of the most accomplished photographers of our day: Richard Avedon, Garry Winogrand, David Vestal, and Bruce Davidson. An acute observer of street life as well as family rhythms, Brand has captured public and private moments in arresting images. Brand’s work and friendship with Winogrand was the subject of a 2014 exhibition, Two-Way Street: The Photographs of Garry Winogrand and Jonathan Brand at the Portland Art Museum. Other solo and group exhibitions have been presented from Maine, to Oregon, to Sweden, including at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon; White Gallery at Portland State University; and the Bennington Museum in Vermont. Brand’s photographs are in public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Portland Museum of Art (Maine), the Portland Art Museum (Oregon), and the Bennington Museum.
Photography at the Portland Art Museum in Oregon. She received her PhD in Art History from Boston University, and has worked at institutions including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. She has curated and co-curated more than 25 exhibitions at the Portland Art Museum including Contemporary Native Photographers and the Edward Curtis Legacy, Force of Nature: Emmet Gowin in the American West, and Two-Way Street: The Photographs of Garry Winogrand and Jonathan Brand. Recent publications include The Question of Hope: Robert Adams in Western Oregon.
Julia Dolan is The Minor White Curator of
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UNDER MY WINDOW Written by Michal Safdie Introduction by Ari Shavit
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 Mt. Scopus in the skyline; to the West, the Holy Sepulcher Church and the Christian Quarter. Directly under her window is a narrow alley through which thousands of people pass every day. The alley is a crossroads. It is the path of Jews residing in the Jewish Quarter and in the western part of the city, to the Western Wall. 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, and Holy Mosques in the old city. It is the route of Christians to the Holy Sepulcher. The view from the window offers two contrasting perspectives. Across toward the western Wall precinct, there are vast ceremonial spaces and the silhouette of the Old City quarters. Directly below, in the alley and terraces, a great variety of people seek the sacred, as well as the morning and evening cycles of life’s routines. PHOTOGRAPHY - SUBJECTS & THEMES - HISTORY HARDCOVER 108 PAGES 9 X 12.5 INCHES ISBN 978-1-57687-871-2 $40.00 US/CAN LIMITED EDITION HARDCOVER 108 PAGES 12 X 17 INCHES ISBN 978-1-57687-872-9 $90.00 US/CAN
Michal Safdie was born in Jerusalem, Israel, and was educated in the fields of sociology and anthropology. Her photographic career has concentrated on architecture and architectural models. Since then, 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.
The photographs capture private and personal moments as well as ritual events side by side, seeming normality hinting at the social and political forces that shape life in Jerusalem.
newspaper of record, and a prominent commentator on Israeli Public Television. Shavit has become one of the strongest voices in the nation’s public arena. He challenges in 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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COCOONS By Peter Steinhauer 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 swathing. The title Cocoons is a natural choice for this work, celebrating the giant wrapped, cocoon-like structures—later to be unveiled ceremoniously, revealing for the first time the brand-new façades
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, CO, Steinhauer lived in Asia for 20 years, and currently resides in San Francisco, CA.
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LEVON AND KENNEDY Mississippi Innocence Project Photographs by Isabelle Armand Text by Tucker Carrington
Two African American men from poor, rural Mississippi wrongfully convicted for crimes they didn’t commit. Years of their lives lost in jail, then finally released a decade and a half later thanks to the Innocence Project and DNA testing. This is their life for all to see.
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Isabelle Armand worked with fashion photographers in her native Paris and in New York City, where she has lived and worked since the 1980s. Eventually Armand’s predilection for art drew her away from the fashion industry. She assumed the position of U.S. editor for the French magazine Connaissance des Arts, in whose pages her own photographic portraits of contemporary artists appeared. After a productive stint as editor, Armand devoted herself to a full-time career in freelance photography. Concentrating on black-and-white film portraiture and documentaries, primarily in a 6 x 7 medium format, Armand’s highly original works can be found in both private collections and museum collections, as well as being featured in national and international publications. Professor Tucker Carrington is the founding director of the George C. Cochran Innocence Project (formerly the Mississippi Innocence Project) and the Clinic at the University of Mississippi School of Law. The clinic’s mission is to identify, investigate, and litigate actual claims of innocence by Mississippi prisoners, as well as advocate for systemic criminal justice reform.
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In the early 1990s, in a small disadvantaged community in rural Mississippi, Levon Brooks and Kennedy Brewer were wrongfully convicted of murder. Levon, despite an alibi, was sentenced to life for the murder and rape of a toddler, and was imprisoned for 18 years. A few years later, Kennedy was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of another little girl. He was incarcerated for 15 years. In 2008 they were exonerated with the help of the Innocence Project and DNA testing, which led to a single real perpetrator. The original investigation was botched by police, led by a prosecutor whose main effort was to imprison as many African Americans as he could. He routinely relied on fraudulent experts, most notably a pathologist who was not board-certified, yet performed up to 1,200 autopsies a year while the National Association of Medical Examiners sets the yearly average at 250. The pathologist worked with a dental expert who testified that in both cases multiple bite marks covered the bodies and matched the defendants’ teeth impressions. It was later proven that there was not a single bite mark on either of the victims. In 2012, photographer Isabelle Armand came across an article about the cases. Such corruption seemed unbelievable. How, why, and where could this happen? How does one cope with wrongful conviction? For the next five years, she spent several weeks each year documenting Levon, Kennedy, their families, and their environment. This intimate photographic essay, akin to looking in a mirror, puts faces on the victims of wrongful convictions. It raises consciousness, challenging popular perceptions about poverty and inequality in our criminal justice system, and further demands that America confront itself on these fundamental social issues.
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KEITH ROWE
The Room Extended By Brian Olewnick
In London, in the fall of 1965, a group of four musicians dissatisfied with the constructs they had encountered in the British jazz scene, came together with a highly thought-out agenda to revolutionize the way music was created, rejecting rules firmly in place then (and still today) among even the most forward-looking of musicians: no repertoire, no solos, no regular rhythms, no melodies, no fear of silence, 100% improvised. Keith Rowe was one of the founding members. They called themselves AMM and soon added the composer Cornelius Cardew, an associate of John Cage and Karlheinz Stockhausen, who was seeking to escape what he thought were equivalent strictures in the avant-garde classical world. As a quintet, AMM created music unlike anything else being done at the time and, being immersed in the London scene of the mid-60s in which musical boundaries were amorphous, found themselves on the one hand sharing bills with nascent bands like Pink Floyd, The Who, and Cream while on the other working with and alongside Yoko Ono and Christian Wolff.
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Brian Olewnick is a new music writer and visual artist. He helped run the avant-garde jazz loft Environ from 1976-1980 and was eventually seduced into writing about contemporary music in various forms from jazz to modern classical, free-improvisation and beyond. He has written for All Music Guide, The Wire, Time-Out New York, and other publications in addition to his blog, Just Outside, one of the principal sites for analysis of new music where he has published over 2,000 reviews since 2006. He has given talks on the craft of writing about contemporary music in Philadelphia, Västerås, Sweden, and Sokołowska, Poland. He lives with his wife, Betsy, in Kinderhook, New York.
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Rowe, a guitarist trained as a painter, adapted the lessons he’d learned in the visual arts to his guitar, placing it flat on a table of the ground as Jackson Pollock had done with his canvases, using it as a sound source to be approached with all manner of implements, opening up a vast new territory of exploration, one which would be enormously influential in rock, contemporary classical, and the field of free improvisation. Over 12 years in the making and via exhaustive research and exclusive interviews, Brian Olewnick has traced Rowe’s life from childhood through the present, with focus on London’s mid-60s experimental music scene, the political unrest of the late 60s, the radical politics of the early 70s, the ongoing saga of AMM through the 90s, and the accompanying advance of creative music over that time period, centered around Rowe’s participation in those events and his major contributions to the contemporary avant-garde environment. Through the many ups and downs of AMM and beyond, Rowe has become an éminence grise to generations of musicians, and is still today continuing to push the boundaries of what is possible in the world of sound.
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PAPER SWEETS By PaperMade
Paper Sweets—the 12th entry in the PaperMade series—will be an instant social media sensation. All 20 pages have unique designs that are pre-cut, scored, and deliciously illustrated with yummy sweets. Each delicacy punches out and folds up into a 3-D shape with easy-to-follow instructions right on the page. Paper Sweets combines paper craft with advanced paper engineering so no glue, tape, or tools are needed! Paper Sweets are fat-free and totally addicting. People ages 7 to 101 will love making Paper Sweets and sharing their photos and videos of them everywhere. Paper Sweets includes: Milk & Cookies A Doughnut Macaroons Assorted Candies And a heart-shaped box of chocolates
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PaperMade 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—Paper craft for the masses.
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DEVIANT DESIRES
HARRY BENSON
By Katharine Gates
By Harry Benson Introduction by Howard J. Kessler
A Tour of the Erotic Edge
Persons of Interest
“It’s an equally eye-opening and empowering read...” – Dazed Digital
“Benson’s collection of photographs is a treasure trove.” – Vanity Fair
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VINTAGE TATTOO FLASH VOLUME 2
New York City 70s, 80s, 90s By Carrie Boretz Foreword by Vivian Gornick
By Jonathan Shaw Introduction by Joe Coleman
“For Boretz, a single, evanescent instant captured for eternity was always the goal.” – Village Voice
“Vintage Tattoo Flash: Volume 2 is a rich archive of previously unseen traditional American tattoo designs collected by legendary tattoo master and artist Jonathan Shaw.” – Hunger
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NYC 1970-1985
El Barrio in the ‘80s
“Grazda’s pearly black-and-white finish preserves the raggedy, stuporous air of the time...” – The New York Times
“Stunning images of Spanish Harlem in the 80s” – Vice
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By Paola Gianturco and Alex Sangster Foreword by Musimbi Kanyoro
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Changing Our World
The Secret of Life
“Paola Gianturco saw something special in the power of girls – something the rest of the world was missing.” – Global Citizen
“The portraits in the collection possess an ethereal, deeply meditative quality that takes on an extra dimension.” – Chronogram
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DON’T ASK A DINOSAUR
By Matt Forrest Esenwine Illustrated by Louie Chin Written by Deborah Bruss
Written in a masterfully-executed rhyme, the book presents a cavalcade of lesser-known dinos and pairs their odd characteristics with tasks hilariously impossible. “Don’t Ask Deinocheirus to set the forks and spoons,” because his hands are enormous, “Therizinosaurus cannot blow up balloons,” because he has very long claws. In the end they find the one thing everyone can help do is to blow out the candles on the cake...but will it create yet another mess?
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Matt Forrest Esenwine has had several adult poems published in independent collections around the country, and in 2012 his poem, “Apple-Stealing,” was nominated by the Young Adult Review Network (YARN) for a Pushcart Prize. Meanwhile, his children’s poetry can be found in numerous anthologies, including Kenn Nesbitt’s One Minute Till Bedtime (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2016), Lee Bennett Hopkins’ Lullaby and Kisses Sweet (Abrams Appleseed, 2015), and J. Patrick Lewis’ The National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry (National Geographic Children’s Books, 2015), among others, as well as Highlights for Kids magazine. Born just outside of Baltimore, MD, Matt lives in Warner, NH with his wife and kids.
Louie Chin was born in New York City. His comics and illustrations have appeared in a variety of publications and projects, including The New York Times, Boston Globe, and Nike. Louie is especially happy to illustrate this book, since he spent hours reading the dinosaur edition of Childcraft as a kid, being fascinated, yet scared. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.
Some children know what they want to be when they grow up. Not Deborah Bruss. Her passion for writing did not develop until after she had read thousands of pages out loud to her two boys. Once she discovered a love of writing for children, her career took off. She has written humorous, educational pieces for newspapers on subjects ranging from a porcupine bent on revenge to some seasick children on a whale watch, an award winning picture book, and a board book too. For six years she also worked as a librarian at a small public elementary school, and is also collaborating on an historical fiction middle-grade novel. In 1999, Deborah, her husband, and two sons adopted two girls. All of her children have grown up. She now lives in Concord, NH, with her husband and rescue-dog. POWERHOUSE BOOKS 2018 FALL/WINTER 2012 POW! SPRING
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FRANNY’S FATHER IS A FEMINIST Written by Rhonda Leet Illustrated by Megan Walker
Franny’s father is a feminist. It’s simple, really! He knows that girls can do anything boys can do, and raises Franny to believe that she deserves all the same rights, freedoms, and opportunities to fulfill her dreams that he had. Through sweet, straight-forward prose, Franny’s Father portrays the loving bond between a young girl, and her father who isn’t afraid of bucking gender norms in order to ensure that his daughter grows up smart, strong, and full of self confidence. From teaching her to fix her own bicycle and splashing in the mud, to cheering at ballet recitals and supporting Franny’s mother in her career, Franny’s father displays what it means for a man to be a feminist, and how male feminism can play a vital role in the empowerment of young women.
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Rhonda Leet is a teacher and advocate for children. Rhonda’s passion for children’s books has grown from reading them to her students to writing her debut picture book, Franny’s Father is a Feminist. Rhonda believes all children deserve to thrive in the classroom and throughout their lives, regardless of their gender. She is a lifelong learner who typically has a book in her hand. When Rhonda isn’t reading and writing, she can be found tending her gardens and caring for her sheep, chickens, and husband! Megan Walker was born and raised in Birmingham, UK, where she still lives and works today. Her love of drawing and stories began at a young age; scribbling away on any paper she could get ahold of, and devouring as many books as possible. She graduated from the University of Gloucestershire in 2014 with a degree in illustration. She is a member of the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, and was selected as the Featured Illustrator for June 2017. Franny’s Father is a Feminist is her first picture book.
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Written by Naomi Danis Illustrated by Cinta Arribas In spare, poignant, direct prose, I Hate Everyone paints a nuanced and honest portrait of the complex emotional lives of children. I hate everyone. In our worst moods, it’s a phrase you just want to shout out loud—even if, deep down, you don’t really mean it. Set at a birthday party, the disgruntled first-person narration portrays the confusing, often contradictory feelings that can sometimes make it impossible to be nice—particularly when what you need most is for someone to be nice to you. A gorgeous, poetic contemplation, sure to elicit a reaction from readers, and a worthy successor to Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible No-Good Very Bad Day.
JUVENILE FICTION - SOCIAL THEMES - EMOTIONS & FEELINGS HARDCOVER 32 PAGES 9.5 X 12.8 INCHES ISBN 978-1-57687-874-3 $17.99 US/CAN
Naomi Danis is the managing editor of Lilith magazine. Independent, Jewish, and frankly feminist I HATE EVERYONE is her fourth book for young children. When she is not busy enjoying herself in spite of herself at birthday parties or napping on airplanes and trains as a long distance grandmother, she can often be found preparing meals for herself, her family, and friends in her Forest Hills kitchen and composting in her garden. She loves leftovers. She is an absolute beginner at ballet. She is working on worrying less about surprises. Did you ever wish someone would go away and leave you alone, and then change your mind? Based in Madrid, Cinta Arribas is a frequent contributor to Flow Magazine and The Debrief, among others. In addition to her editorial work, she had created illustrations for a number of children’s books, from a coloring book to a recipe book, and her work has been featured in several anthologies. Coco ¿dónde estás? was her first full-length picture book, which she wrote and illustrated, and published in Spain and the United States. Her work is colorful and expressive; it plays with a subtle sense of humor that highlights the fact that life should always be a little fun. POWERHOUSE BOOKS 2018 FALL/WINTER 2012 POW! SPRING
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