"For the past 8 years, photographer Livia Corona has documented the Enanitos Toreros, troupes of little people performing as bullfighters. She toured and lived with them throughout Mexico and migrant farming communities in the US, often traveling with 12 to 14 people in a single van. The cars blared out a tailored audiotape advertisement: "This evening, in your town, the Enanitos Toreros have arrived with a show that will kill you. But k ..."
"In 2005, the brilliant and controversial Nobuyoshi Araki, one of Japan's leading photographers, traveled to Europe for major exhibitions of his work at London's Barbican Centre and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. Already celebrated for his unflinching portrayals of Tokyo in collections such as "Tokyo Still Life" and "Tokyo Lucky Hole," the Japanese photographer embraced the opportunity to turn his lens onto London and Paris, two of Europe ..."
"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 ..."
""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, ..."
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 ..."
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 ..."
"The subjects of I Heart Girl do not exhibit the expected stereotypes of women in mass media today. Instead, each face and each body is presented by Jessica Yatrofsky through study and repetition, examining femininity with irreverence and countering the widely accepted female image of past generations. Purposefully capturing young subjects with varying degrees of "masculine" and "feminine" traits, Yatrofsky further ignores the clichés o ..."
"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 ..."
"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 ..."
"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 late 50s after an unsuccessful stint in college, master photographer Larry Fink dropped out and began an odyssey of hitchhiking through America. Starting out in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and moving on to Chicago, Larry travelled eastward through Cincinnati and finally back to his native soil on Long Island where his family waited with dismayed but open arms. Clearly Long Island was not an optimal place for young Fink to remain. S ..."
High Times(1st Edition) A 40-Year History of the World's Most Infamous Magazine द्वारा High Times, High Times Magazine, PowerhouseBooks Hardcover, 300 पन्ने, प्रकाशित 2014 द्वारा PowerhouseBooks ISBN-13: 978-1-57687-724-1, ISBN: 1-57687-724-8
"Founded in 1974 by an ambitious political activist and outlaw drug smuggler, "High Times" has been a revolutionary venture right from the start. Providing alternative political commentary and unabashed enthusiasm for cannabis, LSD, and psychedelic mushrooms, the proven success and staying power of the magazine throughout the years has cemented its reputation as the world's foremost countercultural publication. In the 1970s, every reader ..."
"Some time ago, while at a New York flea market, inveterate collectors Michael Hurst and Robert Swope discovered a large body of snapshots: album after aged album of well-preserved images, taken roughly between the mid-50s and mid-60s, depicting a group of cross-dressers united around a place called Casa Susanna, a rather large and charmingly banal Victorian-style house in small-town New Jersey. The inhabitants, visitors, guests, and hos ..."
"Developer Trays is master photography printer John Cyr's tribute to the craft and art he has spent his career perfecting. As sure as the age of silver has come to an end, there remain few but extraordinary and dedicated darkroom practitioners such as Cyr who continue to work with chemistry and processes more or less unchanged since the early days of the medium. With an unrivaled passion for the darkroom and all its accouterments Cyr ..."
"“He seems to always have that camera at the ready and to be the insider’s insider. Everyone welcomes Scott—he’s a confidante, a secret keeper, a protector, a big brother, a little brother, and…always seems to be in the right place at the right time.” —Courtney Love Scott Lipps lives a life most can only dream of. Surrounded by captivating beauties during the day as founder and CEO of One Management—home to the world's top supermodel ..."
"Laundromats are a quintessential part of the New York City landscape: an indispensible element to many city dwellers' lives, they're an ersatz utility room shared with dozens of strangers at any given time, a moist environment of humming machines and strange clothes. No other public facility gathers so many people under one roof to engage in one of the most intimate rituals in which the modern human routinely performs, that of making cl ..."
" PIN–UP Interviews is a compilation of over 50 of the most fascinating interviews from PIN–UP magazine since its first issue was published in October 2006. Serious, yet accessible, and featuring the elegant and modern aesthetic PIN–UP's readers have come to expect, there is no comparable compilation found today with such a stunning array of contemporary design talent collected in one place. It's an indispensable source for all lo ..."
""We look so young. We were so young."—Rene Ricard Scene is a remarkable compendium of portraits of renowned personalities from arguably the most exciting era of New York City underground culture, the 80s—a veritable time capsule of NYC when the young and indomitable flocked downtown in search of places to work and live among like-minded collaborators. These musicians, filmmakers, painters, writers, fashion designers, publishers, a ..."