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powerHouse Books Legend Vivian Maier in the News

August 23, 2024

Vivian Maier, iconic photographer behind bestselling powerHouse Books titles Vivian Maier: Street Photographer and Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits, stars in an… Read More

The New York Pigeon on WNYC

August 23, 2024

Andrew Garn went on WNYC to discuss The New York Pigeon on 08/22 Read more about the book HERE Listen… Read More

The New York Pigeon in The New York Times

August 15, 2024

The newly revised edition of The New York Pigeon was just featured in The New York Times’ article on Iván… Read More

The Book of Joel in Broadway World

July 12, 2024

The Book of Joel is announced in Broadway World! The title comes out Fall, 2024. Read more about the book… Read More

Black Is Beautiful in The New Yorker

June 25, 2024

Black Is Beautiful: JET Beauties of the Week reviewed in the New Yorker! Famed 60s sunshine pop band 5th Dimension’s LaMonte McLemore contributed… Read More

Family Values in Genre Is Dead!

June 21, 2024

A beautiful and heartfelt review of Family Values in Genre Is Dead! “Family Values: Kurt, Courtney & Frances Bean is… Read More

Forthcoming

Jean-François Bouchard

Ari Seth Cohen

Paris In Winter: An Illustrated Memoir (2024)

David Coggins

The Italian Daughter’s Cookbook

Cathy Coluccio Fazzolari

Larry Fink: Hands On / A Passionate Life of Looking

Photographs by Larry Fink

The Book of Joel

Joel Grey

Jamel Shabazz

Michael Bolton

Don Bronstein: Photographs 1958-1968

Don Bronstein

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The New York Pigeon (2024)

Andrew Garn

Family Values: Kurt, Courtney, & Frances Bean

Photographs by Guzman

Lo-Life: The Autobiography of Rack-Lo

George "Rack-Lo" Billips

Black Is Beautiful: JET Beauties of the Week

The Photography of LaMonte McLemore with Chris Murray. Essays by Sylvia Flanagan, Jayne Kennedy, and Mickalene Thomas.

By Patrick Trefz

Material Wealth: Mining the Personal Archive of Allen Ginsberg

Compiled and Annotated by Pat Thomas

Gary Cooper: Enduring Style

By G. Bruce Boyer and Maria Cooper Janis with Foreword by Ralph Lauren

Jessica Lange

An American Cannabis Story

David Goodman

Press Releases

Advanced Pets by Ari Seth Cohen out November

The New Cubans out October

The New York Pigeon out Today + Event Thursday!

Family Values: Kurt, Courtney, & Frances Bean – Out June 25!

Fall 24 Preview

Lo-Life: The Autobiography of Rack-Lo – Out Tomorrow + Events!

Weekly Highlight: Persona Non Grata: Photographs by Boogie

Weekly Highlight: Mommie by Arlene Gottfried

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Lovemarks: the future beyond brands (Expanded Edition)

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