"Boxing is one of the most popular sports in Cuba and its fighters are recognized the world over for their skills and finesse. The Cuban national team holds more Olympic medals in the sport than any other country, making the nation a hotbed of emerging global champions. State-sanctioned and promoted since the revolution, amateur boxing's potential for fame and relative wealth makes it a beacon for impoverished youth yearning for a better ..."
"For a generation, tabloids, television, and Hollywood have defined the public image of New Yorkers who live in the city s 334 housing projects. Focusing on crime, disrepair, and other ills that afflict these islands of red brick, such portrayals ironically have made it all too easy for government to reduce the support these projects have relied on since their birth some eighty years ago. And so conditions worsen further yet, as the buil ..."
"Back in the Days documents the emerging Hip Hop scene from 1980–1989—before it became what is today’s multimillion-dollar, multinational industry. Back in the Days, battles involved rappers, DJs, dancers, and painters, not gangsters and guns. Back in the days, the streets—not corporate planning—set the standards for style. Back in the days, Jamel Shabazz was on the scene, photographing everyday people hangin’ in Harlem, kickin’ it in Qu ..."
"In 1962, a young John Cohen and the young songwriter Bob Dylan went to Cohen's East Village loft and rooftop for a few hours to make some photos in "a moment of invention…without planning, and with the freedom that comes from uncertainty," recalls Cohen. The never-before-published, black-and-white photographs in Young Bob: John Cohen's Early Photographs of Bob Dylan reveal the soon-to-be-legendary musician on the cusp of fame, just befo ..."
Gowanus Waters(1st Edition) द्वारा Steven Hirsch, PowerhouseBooks Hardcover, 156 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2016 द्वारा PowerhouseBooks ISBN-13: 978-1-57687-792-0, ISBN: 1-57687-792-2
"The Gowanus Canal is a 1.8-mile-long waterway connecting Upper New York Bay (the bay in between Brooklyn, Manhattan, New Jersey, and Staten Island) with the formerly industrial interior of Brooklyn. Originally it was fed by the marshland and freshwater springs in Brooklyn and drained into the Atlantic Ocean in Upper New York Bay. Because of the way it was created, though, it has become stagnant and polluted by decades of runoff and dump ..."
"Headbangers is a collection of Danish photographer Jacob Ehrbahn’s intimate portraits of the beauty and chaos of heavy metal rockers in the throes of musical ecstasy taken at European metal festivals such as Denmark’s Copenhell, Germany’s Wacken Open Air, and Sweden’s Metaltown. Heavy metal fans go totally berserk when listening to their music. Some shake their heads violently from side to side and back and forth, while others go all in ..."
"As America huffed its way to the end of the '70s, a change more profound than any one cultural trope's evolutionary death knell was taking place. Perceptively distilled in a new volume of photographs by longtime National Geographic shooter Nathan Benn, Kodachrome Memory: American Pictures 1972–1990 depicts an America of boisterous legend and vibrant regionalism, teetering on the cusp of the coming Information Age's great cultural f ..."
"“Dancer-turned-photographer Vivian Cherry has been capturing the quirks of New York City for nearly 70 years, and has yet to grow tired of it.” —New York Daily News New York City is characterized by its sheer diversity, as well as the substantial level of open-mindedness consistently displayed by its residents—making it irresistible to all kinds of people from all walks of life. Centuries of large-scale waves of immigration ..."
"Photographs by: Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, Lynsey Addario, Martin Adler, Richard Butler, Francesco Cito, Gary Calton, Chris de Bode, Donna De Cesare, Miquel Dewever Plana, Tiane Doan na Champassak, Colin Finlay, Riccardo Gangale, Cedric Gerbehaye, Jan Grarup, Tim A. Hetherington, Rhodri Jones, Bob Koenig, Roger Lemoyne, Zed Nelson, Peter Mantello, Heather McClintock, Olivier Pin Fat, Giacomo Pirozzi, Q. Sakamaki, Marcelo Salinas, Dominic Sanson ..."
In Prison Air(1st Edition) The Cells of Holmesburg Prison द्वारा Thomas Roma, John Szarkowski, PowerhouseBooks Hardcover, 96 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2005 द्वारा PowerhouseBooks ISBN-13: 978-1-57687-257-4, ISBN: 1-57687-257-2
"In 1999, photographer Thomas Roma found himself within the walls of Philadelphia’s Holmesburg Prison, one of the most notorious prisons in the United States, doing a special photographic project for Steve Buscemi’s Animal Factory. During downtime Roma wandered through this nineteenth-century fortress, walking in and out of many of its seven hundred or so cells. After Holmesburg’s inception in 1896—on the occasion of which one Philadelph ..."
"Fusing the worlds of art, photography, design, fashion, pop culture, advertising, music, dance, and film, into a glorious magazine unlike anything you've ever seen, powerHouse Magazine showcases artists and writers who share our collective vision about culture and its place in the world. The premier issue, No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn, is a 30 year retrospective of Hip Hop culture documenting its humble beginnings in the South Bronx through ..."
"Novel fashion photographer Craig McDean-he of the blazing Jil Sander and Calvin Klein campaigns-has a hankering for hot wheels and muscle cars, the kind built in back yards and driveways across America. He also loves to see them drag race, in quasi-formal circuits known as bracket racing. Taking a deliberately studied, off-key approach to the drivers, the machines, and the bonhomie of the small time drag racing circuit-seen in the froze ..."
Vintage Tattoo Flash(1st Edition) 100 Years of Traditional Tattoos from the Collection of Jonathan Shaw द्वारा Jonathan Shaw, Joe Coleman Hardcover, 216 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2017 द्वारा PowerhouseBooks ISBN-13: 978-1-57687-847-7, ISBN: 1-57687-847-3
""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, ..."
"An elegant, captivating collection of significant photographs to celebrate the iconic 20th century composer/conductor's Centennial in 2018.Leonard Bernstein was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, the son of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. He died 72 years later, an international superstar and American icon. He achieved a level of celebrity that few musicians, and fewer classical musicians, ever attain. The first American-born musician ..."
Sex Magazine(1st Edition) #1-10 2012-2015 द्वारा Asher Penn, PowerhouseBooks Paperback, 360 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2016 द्वारा PowerhouseBooks ISBN-13: 978-1-57687-782-1, ISBN: 1-57687-782-5
"Sex Magazine is an independent online culture publication based in New York. Designed for the web, and completely free, Sex has acted as a real-time archive for a spectrum of creative ideas available to anyone who wants to take the time. The list of artists, designers, musicians, writers, and photographers featured in these digital editions reads like a yearbook of some of the most influential forces of the post-internet era.Inspired by ..."
"Punch out, Fold up and...Shhht! Instant Silent Assasins. Paper Ninja-- the 3rd in a series of books is a title that will surprise at every turn. Each of the 14 unique ninja designs are pre-cut, scored and perforated so anyone can simply punch them out and fold them up with easy-to-follow instructions. These quiet killers blend perfectly into the background, waiting to strike. And this book comes with an added bonus--pages that fold ..."
"In the Vale of Cashmere marks the culmination of acclaimed photographer Thomas Roma's four-year odyssey into a densely wooded, secluded corner of Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, where gay cruising dominates the footpaths and trails. The Vale of Cashmere, a name that dates back to the 1890s, has long been a meeting place for gay men. and currently, mostly Black men. However, encounters occur between men of all walks of life, as well as gend ..."