Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. SEPTEMBER Flying Pictures By Daniel Gordon "A straight photograph is an exact representation of a segment of space and time circumscribed by the physical and optical limitations of the medium. So, although the representation is exact, because of the circumscription, it is also a visual fiction. Daniel Gordon explores this boundary with inventiveness, playfulness, and physical stamina." —Stephen Shore Between 2001 and 2004, on the snowy fields in New York's Hudson Valley and the rocky coasts of the Bay Area in Northern California, photographer Daniel Gordon learned to fly—if only for 1/125 of a second. Read more » Viva L'Italia! By Ron Galella For years, Ron Galella, "the Godfather of American paparazzo culture," has provided the world a glimpse into the off-limits world of celebrity. With Viva l'Italia!, a deeper and more probing Galella emerges. He sets out to find his own Italian roots, and in so doing, takes us on a viaggio as he combs his vast archive for images of Italian and Italian-American actors, artists, fashion designers, along with a wide range of other cultural icons. Read more » OCTOBER Sound Kapital Beijing's Music Underground Photographs by Matthew Niederhauser In Sound Kapital, photographer Matthew Niederhauser captures the energy of the personalities and performers at D-22, Yugong Yishan, 2 Kolegas, and Mao Livehouse. These revolutionary Beijing nightclubs remain at the core of the city's creative explosion by hosting an eclectic mix of punk, experimental, rock, and folk performances. Read more » High Glitz The Extravagant World of Child Beauty Pageants By Susan Anderson High Glitz: The Extravagant World of Beauty Pageants is a close-up and intimate look at America's child beauty pageants, and in turn our society's obsession with youth, beauty, fame, and fortune. Susan Anderson's vibrant portraits of pageant contestants twist notions of sexuality and identity, with a new perspective on this uniquely American subculture. Read more » Sandhogs By Gina LeVay Sandhogs is an original portal to the unseen characters and systems of underground New York—revealing the essential "art form" of mining in the modernized city. In 2003 Gina LeVay was granted rare access to photograph the "hogs," in the tunnel and at off-site locations. Read more » NOVEMBER The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument By KRS-One The Gospel of Hip Hop: The First Instrument, the first book from the I Am Hip Hop imprint launched Spring of 2009, is the philosophical masterwork of KRS-One. Set in the format of the Christian Bible, this 600-plus-page opus is a life-guide manual for members of Hip Hop Kulture that combines classic philosophy with faith and practical knowledge for a fascinating, in-depth exploration of Hip Hop as a life path. Read more » THE ART OF THE IDEA And How it Can Change Your Life By John Hunt "Buy a copy of John Hunt's book to put within reach on the bedside table. Buy a copy to keep next to the tub in the bathroom permanently. And one on the stove. And one in your car. And a bedroom extra to keep under the pillow as a talisman. It really is that good-gorgeous-useful-inspiringprofound. (As you can doubtless tell, I'm quite taken by The Art of the Idea.)" —Tom Peters (co-author of In Search of Excellence) In The Art of the Idea, Hunt addresses everyone from the global boardroom to the man on the street, bridging the gap with ease. Few can argue with Hunt's claim that it is ideas that move the world forward, and he refreshingly articulates that anyone can play: there is no hierarchy to original thinking. Read more » I Still Do Loving and Living with Alzheimer's By Judith Fox Three years into their marriage, Judith Fox's husband, Dr. Edmund Ackell, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. Over the course of the next ten years, Fox watched as the man who used to perform surgery, fly planes, and run universities, forgot how to turn on the coffee maker, place a phone call, or remember what his wife had told him two minutes earlier. Read more » Short Track Photographs by Jake Mendel Short Track documents the world of semi-professional dirt track racing: from the downtrodden bombers and high-end stock cars, to the fans, drivers, and mechanics' lives on and off the track. With roots going back to prohibition-era rumrunners, stock car racing has evolved into a national phenomenon and become America's second-most watched televised sport. Read more » Endurance Down and Dirty Off-Road Racing By Theresa Ortolani Kanney, the main subject of Theresa Ortolani's Endurance: Down and Dirty Off-Road Racing, crashed his dirt bike during the 2004 International Six Days Enduro race in Poland, but he kept going until he was pulled from the race and taken to the hospital. Doctors removed his ruptured spleen and told him he would have died if he had stayed in the race any longer. Read more » DECEMBER Man in the Mirror: Michael Jackson By Ron Galella Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, was a superstar of unprecedented and epic proportions, and is still the best-selling recording artist of all time. An icon raised in the spotlight, but ever reclusive and terribly shy, Jackson was the ideal subject for paparazzo extraordinaire Ron Galella, the nation's most famous celebrity photojournalist. Galella shot Michael from his early days in the Jackson 5 right up to the weeks before his untimely death. Finding intimate moments with the legend offstage, he captured candid, beautiful, unguarded portraits of the man behind the mask and a lifetime of style and glamour. Read more » Harry Benson: Photographs By Harry Benson Harry Benson: Photographs is a visual celebration of Benson's incomparable career's work in the realms of celebrity, art, fashion, sports, politics, and photojournalism and features a distinctive mix of iconic images alongside never-before-published photographs of... Read more » Madonna: Sticky & Sweet By Guy Oseary Following the critical success of Madonna: Confessions, the powerHouse team, Madonna, and Guy Oseary return with a knockout punch: Sticky & Sweet, a dynamic look at Madonna's celebrated Sticky & Sweet Tour, which broke all previous records and became the number-one highest grossing tour of any solo artist ever—with Madonna playing before 2,350,282 fans and selling over 280 million dollars' worth of tickets. Read more » Blues, Booze, & BBQ Photographs by Michael Loyd Young Blues, Booze, & BBQ, the first book by Michael Loyd Young, documents the 150 miles of Highway 61, the famed blacktop road snaking from Memphis, TN down to Greenville, MS. At the halfway point, in the heart of the Mississippi Delta, sits Clarksdale, MS, the city considered the birthplace of the blues and the location of Robert Johnson's famed "Cross Road Blues" intersection of Highway 61 and 49. Read more » Twirl / Run Photographs by Jeff Mermelstein Twirl / Run, the second powerHouse artist's book by Jeff Mermelstein, is a surprising combination of two extensive bodies of work—women twirling their hair and people on the run—whose dissonance creates a new way of observing our prevailing anxiety and sense of disorder. Read more » JANUARY Band Of Bikers 1962/1972 By Scott Zieher In the basement of an apartment building in Manhattan, Scott Zieher discovered a pile of photographs among the effects of a recently deceased tenant. These photographs, presented for the first time in Band of Bikers 1962/1972, offer an intimate portrait of a group of gay bikers in the city and the woods, and a touching snapshot of an entire generation at its carefree zenith. Read more » Hairy By Robert Greene "With an abundance of wet, hairy nudity and tropical hues, Greene evokes summer at its sexiest and most seductive." —Vince Aletti Painterly rhythms have seeped their way into Robert Greene's world of photography in Hairy, a collection of Greene's images taken over many years, in many places, of many dogs, and many hairy men. Read more » The Brooklyn Navy Yard Photographs by John Bartelstone New York City's largest and oldest industrial facility, the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard occupies 250-acres on the East River between the Williamsburg and Manhattan Bridges, and is presently one of New York City's major industrial sites. Read more » powerHouse Books | powerHouse Arena 37 Main St, Brooklyn, NY 11201 1 (212) 604-9074 For more information, please contact: Joel Caceres, Publicity Associate Craig Cohen, Executive Publisher Wes Del Val, Sales Director Arena, Customer Information and Event Inquiries © Copyright 2009 powerHouse Books