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See page 186 for a selection of titles. 4501 Forbes Blvd., Suite 200 • Lanham, MD 20706 www.nbnbooks.com Art/Architecture/Photography Art/Architecture/Photography Blue Suede Shoes Conventional Wisdom Provocateur Reimagined The Culture of Elvis By Arthur Drooker Photographs 45 Years of Jewish Art By Thom Gilbert Foreword by James Wolcott By Tyler Shields By Mark Podwal Foreword by Kim Novak Foreword by Elie Wiesel Conventional Wisdom chronicles author-photographer Arthur Bad boy photographer Tyler Shields’s darkly romantic work Preface by Cynthia Ozick An all-access pass to the private world of Elvis Presley as Drooker’s travels to quirky conventions in the United States, has made a big impression, whether it’s his photographs of Text by Elisheva Carlebach photographed by Thom Gilbert, who went behind the scenes including Lincoln presenters, furries, and mermaids, and exploding Rolls Royces, alligators clamping their jaws on Birkin Mark Podwal is today’s premiere Weisel artist of the Jewish to capture these stunning photographs of the people and documents them as unique expressions of community, culture, bags, or starlets covered in blood. Shields manages to combine experience, with a prolific portfolio of work lauded by possessions closest to the King himself. The result is a unique and connection. Drooker’s humorous and insightful text, the world of Hollywood glamour with his love for the acrobatic, visionaries ranging from Elie to Maurice Sendak. His paintings portrait of the man who was the most celebrated pop culture including intimate interviews with attendees, compliments creating a wonderful combustion of movement, color, and and ink-on-paper drawings offer profound and nuanced icon of the 20th century. the stunning photographs. From the ballrooms to the vendor subject. Provocateur brings together in a single lavish volume commentary on Jewish tradition, history, and politics. This rooms to the guest rooms, Drooker’s ubiquitous camera several of the LA-based photographer’s collections, including Thom Gilbert is an award-winning photographer. Gilbert’s work has unprecedented collection brings together the widest selection appeared in numerous publications, including New York Magazine, captures the essence and exuberance of these annual a series of retro-style glamour portraits, ethereally decadent of Podwal’s work ever published in a single volume in a Interview, Gotham, and LA Confidential. He is the author of Soul: Memphis’ gatherings. Marie Antoinette-inspired visions, and rustic woodland scenes Original Sound. stunning, lavishly produced oversized hardcover with more Arthur Drooker is the author and photographer of American Ruins, Lost that serve as a backdrop for modern-day nymphs. “No stranger than 350 works. • Promotion on author’s website: www.thomgilbert.net/, Facebook page: Worlds: Ruins of the Americas, and Pie Town Revisited. His work has been to controversy, unaffected by the feathers he ruffles, Tyler www.facebook.com/thom.gilbert.1, and on publisher’s website at featured on CBS Sunday Morning and in museums. Drooker has also Mark Podwal is a physician and celebrated artist whose work is www.glitteratiincorporated.com pushes his subjects—often the young elite of Hollywood–and written, produced, and directed award-winning television documentaries. represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the • Author tour including New York City and the Hamptons, New York He lives in Mill Valley, California. James Wolcott is the culture critic himself, to the limits, going well outside” usual comfort zones. Victoria and Albert Museum, the Fogg Art Museum and the Library of • Publicity outreach including Publishers Weekly, W Magazine, T Style for Vanity Fair. He lives in New York, New York Congress. Podwal is the author of many books. He lives in New York, New Magazine (New York Times), Town & Country, The New Yorker, OUT, Tyler Shields was born in Jacksonville, Florida. Known as “Hollywood’s York. Elie Wiesel is a Romanian-born Jewish writer, professor, political Associated Press, New York Times, People, New York Magazine, Faerie • Publicity outreach including Publisher’s Weekly, W Magazine, T Style favorite photographer,” the LA-based contemporary artist and filmmaker activist, and Nobel Laureate. He is the author of over fifty titles, including Magazine, Life and Times, Garden and Gun, and York Surf Magazine, Town & Country, The New Yorker, OUT, Associated Press, New has evolved from the “bad boy of photography” to a more mature artist York Times, People, New York Magazine, Faerie Magazine, Coolhunting, whose work explores the collective gaze, power structures, and hyper- Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in concentration It’s Nice That Blog, Lens Scratch Blog, ACurator, L’Oeil de la realism. Tyler’s previous book is The Dirty Side of Glamour. Shields resides camps. He lives in New York, New York. Cynthia Ozick is an American- Photographie in Los Angeles, California. Jewish short story writer, novelist, and essayist. She lives in Westchester, New York. Elisheva Carlebach is a professor of Jewish history, culture, and • Promotion on author’s website: www.tylershields.com , Facebook page: society at Columbia University. 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