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powerHouse Books Spring 2010 Catalog Selected Critical Praise for the 2009 powerHouse List “EDGY ” “A FULL -TH R OATED C R Y FO R C R EATIVE F R EEDOM ” www.powerHouseBooks.com TABLE OF CONTENTS SPRING 2010 —AD AGE “FASCINATING ” POWERHOUSE BOOKS —ALLU R E 2–3 MAN IN THE MIRROR: MICHAEL JACKSON ...................... by Ron Galella, introduction by Brooke Shields, essay by Susan Blond 4–5 BAND OF BIKERS............................................................................... by Scott Zieher 6–7 MADONNA: STICKY & SWEET ......................................................................by Guy Oseary 8–9 BASEBALL ...............................................................by David Levinthal, text by Jonathan Mahler 10–11 A RETURN TO THE MIDDLE AGES “GLAM!” SUBURBAN KNIGHTS: .................................by E. F. Kitchen, introduction by Leo Braudy 12–13 SHORT STORIES OF THE TRANSPARENT MIND.......................................................by Joakim Eneroth IME UT 14–15 THE NEW YORK PHOTO FESTIVAL CATALOG.................................................................. NYPH —T O 16–17 FULL BLEED: NEW YORK CITY SKATEBOARD PHOTOGRAPHY a VICE Books title............. by Alex Corporan, Andre Razzo, and Ivory Serra NEW YO R K 18–19 TALES OF WOE an MTV Press title .................................................................... by John Reed 20–21 VIVIAN CHERRY’S NEW YORK .....................................................................by Vivian Cherry 22–23 COVER STORY: BIZARRE ALBUM ART a Wax Poetics Books title................................................by Wax Poetics 24–25 JACKPOT an MTV Press title .....................................................................by Kevin Landers “READS LIKE A CULTU R AL AND 26–27 CURSE OF THE BLACK GOLD: 50 YEARS OF OIL IN THE NIGER DELTA Paperback Edition .............by Ed Kashi, edited by Michael Watts “A MASTE R PIECE POLITICAL ATLAS OF AME R ICAN OF B OTH STYLE 28–33 POWERHOUSE BOOKS AND DISTRIBUTED LINES BACKLIST HISTO R Y ” —THE DAILY BEAST AND SU B STANCE ” —NPR 34 LIMITED EDITIONS 35 PCP INFORMATION “SOCIALLY 36 TRADE SALES AND EDITORIAL INFORMATION 37 POWERHOUSE ARENA BOOKINGS AND INFO P R OVOCATIVE ” —THE NEW YO R K TIMES 38 ORDER FORM “A STUNNING B OOK ” “CR AZY ! —ELLE AWESOME ! “OtherWORLDY” SU rr EAL !” —NEW YO R K TIMES STYLE MAGAZINE —MTV “TEENS IN ALL THEI R © 2009 powerHouse Cultural Entertainment, Inc. “BR ILLIANT ” All rights reserved. front cover image: Joakim Eneroth, from SHORT STORIE S OF THE TRAN S PARENT MIND (pp. 12–13) Designed by HOT TA M ALE EXPRE ss , LLC “FASCINATING ” GLORY” inside back cover: Wish you were here… “wOE is ThE tRAde oF UpLiFtiNg TamALe…” back cover image: E. F. Kitchen, from SUBURBAN KNIGHT S (pp. 10–11) —THE NEW YO R K TIMES —BUST www.powerHouseBooks.com JUST RELEASED 3 MAN IN THE MIRROR Michael Jackson By Ron Galella Introduction by Brooke Shields Essay by Susan Blond 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 PHOTOGRAPHY/POP CULTURE/CELEBRITY captured candid, beautiful, unguarded portraits of the man Hardcover, 9.75 x 12.25 inches, 176 pages, over 120 duotone images behind the mask and a lifetime of style and glamour. ISBN 978-1-57687-535-3 $49.95 / Cnd $53.50 Over the years Galella also captured Michael in the company Ron Galella is the most famous and most controversial of fellow celebrities—drawn, like Galella himself, to the celebrity photographer in the United States. Dubbed biggest and brightest star of them all—including Muhammad “Paparazzi Superstar” by the Miami Herald News, Galella Ali, Diana Ross, Chuck Berry, Brooke Shields, Jane Fonda, Liberace, Quincy Jones, Barry Manilow, Emmanuel Lewis, Liza is willing to take great risks to get the perfect shot. He is Minnelli, Stevie Wonder, Lionel Richie, Sophia Loren, Sylvester the author of seven books, including JA C QUELINE (Sheed Stallone, Ted Kennedy, Dionne Warwick, Whitney Houston, & Ward, 1974), DI sc O YEAR S (powerHouse Books, 2006), Donald Trump, Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Taylor, Madonna, NO PI C TURE S (powerHouse Books, 2008), and VI V A L’ITALIA and Marcel Marceau. He was able to find the personal side (powerHouse Books, 2009). of Michael in images of him with his children, his sister Janet and the rest of the Jackson family, and even his pet Brooke Shields is a successful author, model, and television, chimpanzee, Bubbles. film, and stage actress, best know for her roles in Blue Lagoon, Suddenly Susan, and the Broadway and London’s West End In a tribute to the life and memory of Michael Jackson, productions of Chicago. Her books include DOWN CA M E THE RAIN Galella has compiled his comprehensive body of images of (Hyperion, 2005), WEL C O M E TO YOUR WORLD , BAB Y (HarperCollins, the King of Pop for the first time ever in MAN IN THE MIRROR : MI C HAEL JA cks ON . 2008), and IT’S THE BE S T DA Y EV ER , DAD ! (HarperCollins, 2009), among others. Susan Blond founded the PR firm Susan Blond, Inc. in 1987. She began her career in PR working for Andy Warhol, before moving on to United Artists, and then Epic Records where she served as Vice President. While at Epic, she worked closely with Michael Jackson, helping to turn Thriller into the best selling album of all time. www.powerHouseBooks.com JUST RELEASED 5 BAND OF BIKERS 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 BI K ER S , 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. Newly aware of muscle and biker magazines and their heavy- handed eroticism, photographer and photographed brim with a subtly vibrant, chromatic pride. The photographs as a whole bring into focus a brief, specific period of relative innocence, when middle-of-the-road Americans more often than not failed to perceive the homoerotic undertones of their most heterosexual of institutions. With conceptual light LEATHERMAN BIKE CLUBS/SLIGHTLY FASCISTIC STYLE cast by issues ranging from anonymity in homosexuality and Hardcover, 7.5 x 8 inches, 108 pages, 81 four-color photographs underground motorcycle chic, to vernacular photography’s ISBN 978-1-57687-522-3 $24.95 / Cnd $26.95 pop-culture ramifications, a warm and generous spirit of camaraderie pervades this subterranean survey. Like Scott Zieher is a poet, art dealer, and avid collector. He a real-world set for Scorpio Rising casually captured by has scavenged and collected books, photographs, art, an unpretentious extra, presented as BAND OF BI K ER S and paper, archives, and ephemera since childhood. His recent accompanied by an essay by Zieher, this found cache of poetry has appeared in Tin House, LAB MAG, The Sienese old-school, leather party snapshots attains archeological Shredder, and KNOCK. His first book, VIRGA, the first of a significance. projected 13 sequential, book-length poems, was praised by Milton Welch in The Believer as “doubly striking—both a compelling long poem and an exciting first volume of poetry…we will likely witness Zieher develop into a formidable poet.” He lives and works in New York City where he is president and founding member of Emergency Press, and co-owner of the contemporary art gallery ZieherSmith with his wife, Andrea Smith. www.powerHouseBooks.com JUST RELEASED 7 The Sticky & Sweet set list featured: MADONNA: STICKY & SWEET • Candy Shop • Human Nature By Guy Oseary • Die Another Day • Heartbeat Following the critical success of MADONNA CONFE ss ION S , the • She’s Not Me powerHouse team, Madonna, and Guy Oseary return with a • Rain 2008 knockout punch— MADONNA : STI cky & SWEET , a dynamic look • Spanish Lesson at Madonna’s celebrated Sticky & Sweet tour, which broke • La Isla Bonita all previous records and became the number-one highest • You Must Love Me grossing tour of any solo artist ever—with Madonna playing • 4 Minutes before more than 3.5 million fans and selling over 408 million • Ray of Light dollars’ worth of tickets. • Give It 2 Me • Beat Goes On In over 500 full-color photographs taken on, and backstage, • Vogue during the course of this historic 58-show tour, Oseary • Into the Groove documents the four acts of the rock-driven, pop journey that • Borderline is the Sticky & Sweet show—Pimp: A mashed-up homage to • Music 1920s deco and modern-day gangsta pimp, with Madonna • Devil Wouldn’t Recognize You making a grand entrance dressed in Givenchy; Old School: MADONNA/MUSIC/PHOTOGRAPHY • Miles Away Madonna tips her hat to her early-80s, downtown, New York Hardcover, 9.25 x 12.25 inches, 252 pages, over 500 four-color photographs • Doli Doli City dance roots, with flashes of Keith Haring and the dance ISBN 978-1-57687-532-2 $45.00 / Cnd $48.00 • Get Stupid culture vibe of the time, including the birth of Hip Hop; • Like a Prayer Strictly limited to 9,000 copies, each individually numbered. Gypsy: A VIP trip to La Isla Bonita, infused with the spirit of • Hung Up Romanian folk music and dance—a tour de force; and Rave: Guy Oseary is the CEO of Maverick and Madonna’s manager. Far-eastern influences emerge all sparkly and sporty. He has worked closely with Madonna for almost two decades, and was the only individual permitted to take photographs both on and backstage on the landmark Sticky & Sweet Tour.