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Founder and Publisher Daniel Power started powerHouse Books in 1995, and was joined by Craig Cohen in 1996. The early years had Power and Cohen tag-teaming on a few books at a time, raising the bar each season when, in 1998, PowerHouse Books had its first best-seller, Women Before 10 A.M. by Véronique Vial. Power and Cohen followed up on that success in 1999 with the critically acclaimed cult monographs X-Ray by François Nars and Life is Paradise by Francesco Clemente and Vincent Katz. In 2000, Cohen became a partner in the company, assuming the title of Vice President and Associate Publisher, serving as Executive Publisher between 2008 and 2019. He quickly signed up for the next company bestseller, Back in the Days by Jamel Shabazz, and in the same year, he developed a packaging deal with Capitol Records to produce the Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sounds of Science. With the publishing program growing rapidly, Power and Cohen hired Sara Rosen, who served as Publicity Director from 2000 to 2009. Since then, the company has redefined the cultural landscape of the illustrated book, becoming the only U.S. independent publishing company to do so. He collaborated with photographer Larry Fink on the latter's posthumous retrospective monograph, Larry Fink: Hands On / A Passionate Life of Looking. Resources: Powerhouse Books Larry Fink: Hands On / A Passionate Life of Looking Larry Fink Altadena Photographers Support Ibarionex & The Candid Frame Websites Photo Workshops & Webinars Breaking Out of a Rut: Tips for Creating Breakthroughs in Your Photography Sponsors Charcoal Book Club Frames Magazine Education Resources: Momenta Photographic Workshops Candid Frame Resources Download the free Candid Frame app for your favorite smart device. Click here to download it for . Click here to download Contribute a one-time donation to the show thru Buy Me a Coffee Support the work at The Candid Frame by contributing to our Patreon effort.  You can do this by visiting or the website and clicking on the Patreon button. You can also provide a one-time donation via . You can follow Ibarionex on and .

In today's episode, W. Scott Olsen talks to Daniel Power, the founder of powerHouse Books, an influential independent publishing house known for its innovative photography and visual culture publications.Click here to visit powerHouse Books Susan's website.This podcast is brought to you by FRAMES, a high-quality quarterly printed photography magazine, and its accompanying international photography membership.Find out more and join FRAMES here.

Daniel Power of PowerHouse Books and Yolanda Cuomo of Yolanda Cuomo Design join me for my 200th episode to talk about their famed collaborations including their latest, Larry Fink: Hands On / A Passionate Life of Looking (PowerHouse). This was a really fun and enlightening episode. It is filled with great history and great humor from two incredibly influential figures in photography who also happen to be two great friends. Daniel and Yo talk about their own histories and achievements as well as the love and dedication that went into this last book they worked on with Larry Fink before he passed. https://powerhousebooks.com ||| https://yocuomo.com This podcast is sponsored by the Charcoal Book Club Begin Building your dream photobook library today at https://charcoalbookclub.com Founder and Publisher Daniel Power started powerHouse Books in 1995, and was joined by Craig Cohen in 1996. The early years had Power and Cohen tag-teaming on a few books at a time, raising the bar each season when, in 1998, powerHouse Books had its first best-seller, Women Before 10 A.M. by Véronique Vial. Power and Cohen followed up that success in 1999 with the critically-acclaimed cult monographs X-Ray, by François Nars, and Life is Paradise, by Francesco Clemente and Vincent Katz. In Fall 2006, powerHouse Books launched The POWERHOUSE Arena, a laboratory for creative thought: exhibitions, installations, presentations, displays, viewings, performances, readings, and retail therapy—all drawing upon photography and popular culture as sources of inspiration. Located at 28 Adams Street in the DUMBO section of Brooklyn, the 10,200–square foot marquis showroom and retail space is unlike any other in New York City, featuring a soaring 24-foot ceiling on the 5,000–square foot ground floor, and an equally impressive 5,000–square foot mezzanine, with over 175 feet of glass frontage, designed by esteemed architect David Howell Design. Attached by a central staircase is the Arena Skylounge, a 560 square-foot, mezzanine-level, multifunctional gallery, VIP lounge, and green room. These stunning spaces have hosted a series of landmark exhibitions and events, and are now available for private hire. Yolanda Cuomo is an experienced art director and avid educator. As Principal of Yolanda Cuomo Design, she provides the creative vision, direction, and passion behind all of the Studio's work. Cuomo and her team work collaboratively with their clients, which include leading publishers, museums, authors, editors, artists, and photographers, to develop memorable and meaningful cultural and commercial projects. Cuomo's recent projects include the design of two books with photographer Pete Souza OBAMA, An Intimate Portrait and SHADE, A Tale of Two Presidents, a seven hundred page book entitled An Anthology about Paolo Pellegrin curated by Germano Celant that accompanied an exhibition at the Maxxi Museum in Rome, Italy, a book about Bob Dylan called DYLAN BY SCHATZBERG and the book A Life In Pictures: Steve McCurry. Throughout 2013, Cuomo edited and designed a two-volume nine-hundred-page limited-edition box set, The Library of Julio Santo Domingo, which also included a special-edition iPad and private app celebrating this collection. In fall 2012, Cuomo co-authored with Norma Stevens the book New York at Night, a collection of photographs published by PowerHouse Books. In 2011, Cuomo's studio designed the enormously successful Diane Arbus retrospective which was organized by the Jeu de Paume in Paris, and traveled internationally.

In this episode of the Trans Lesson Plan Podcast, we explore the fascinating history of Casa Susanna, a hidden sanctuary in the Catskill Mountains of New York during the 1950s and 60s. Discover how this cozy retreat became a pivotal safe haven for transgender women and cross-dressing men in an era of intense societal pressure and discrimination. Join us as we uncover the story of Susanna Valenti and the diverse community that found solace and self-expression at Casa Susanna. ------------------------------------------------------------- @translessonplan @mariiiwrld Merch: ⁠https://trans-lesson-plan.printify.me/products⁠ Subscribe to our newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://mailchi.mp/a914d2eca1cf/trans-lesson-plan Link to trans* resources: https://www.americanbar.org/groups/diversity/sexual_orientation/resources/transgenderrights ------------------------------------------------------------- Works Cited: Bakker, Alex, et al. Others of My Kind: Transatlantic Transgender Histories. University of Calgary Press, 2020. Bonnet, Isabelle, et al. Casa Susanna: The Story of the First Trans Network in the United States, 1959-1968. Thames & Hudson ; Art Gallery of Ontario, 2023. Broverman, Neal. “Visit Casa Susanna, A Secret House of Trans Women in the 1960s.” Advocate.Com, Advocate.com, 1 Apr. 2024, www.advocate.com/transgender/casa-susanna#rebelltitem11. Casa Susanna. PBS, 2023. Davis, Bob. “Using archives to identify the Trans* women of Casa Susanna.” TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 4, 1 Nov. 2015, pp. 621–634, https://doi.org/10.1215/23289252-3151547. Haynes, Suyin. “In Upstate New York, Casa Susanna Was a Safe Haven for Trans Women in 1960s America.” CNN, Cable News Network, 26 June 2024, www.cnn.com/2024/06/26/style/casa-susanna-trans-photo-archive/index.html. Hurst, Michel, and Robert Swope. Casa Susanna. PowerHouse Books, 2014. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/translessonplan/support

De raigambre europea y originada en Gran Bretaña, conecta con el free jazz, la música académica contemporánea, la experimental y la vanguardia que se gesta también en Estados Unidos. Si el jazz se ha calificado muchas veces como “el sonido de la sorpresa”, esta sería una “música sin memoria”._____Has escuchadoBarcelona. Esterri / Derek Bailey y Agustí Fernández. Derek Bailey, guitarra; Agustí Fernández, piano. Hopscotch Records (2001)Monoceros / Evan Parker. Evan Parker, saxofón soprano solo. Incus (1978)Solos. Ejié / Seijiro Murayama. Seijiro Murayama, caja (snare drum) sola. Zerojardins (2009)Todos los animales se reúnen en un gran gemido. Huracán de púrpura / Truss. Ferran Fages, guitarra acústica; Alejandro Rojas-Marcos, clavicordio; Bárbara Sela, flautas. Inexhaustible Editions (2020)Winter. Aconite / Wade Matthews & Alfredo Costa Monteiro. Wade Matthews, síntesis digital; Alfredo Costa Monteiro, objetos amplificados. Copy For Your Records (2011)_____Selección bibliográficaALONSO, Chefa, Improvisación libre: composición en movimiento. Dos Acordes, 2010*—, Enseñanza y aprendizaje de la improvisación libre. Propuestas y reflexiones. Editorial Alpuerto, 2014*BAILEY, Derek, La improvisación: su naturaleza y su práctica en la música. Ediciones Trea, 2010*BARZEL, Tamar, “‘We Began from Silence': Toward a Genealogy of Free Improvisation in Mexico City: Atrás del Cosmos at Teatro El Galeón, 1975-1977”. En: Experimentalism in Practice: Music Perspectives from Latin America. Editado por Ana R. Alonso-Minutti, Eduardo Herrera y Alejandro L. Madrid-González. Oxford University Press, 2018*BEN-TAL, Oded y Caroline Wilkins, “Improvisation as a Creative Dialogue”. Perspectives of New Music, vol. 51, n.º 1 (2013), pp. 21-39*BOSSEUR, Jean-Yves, Musique et contestation: la création contemporaine dans les années 1960. Minerve, 2019*CANONNE, Clément, “Improvisation collective libre et processus de création musicale: création et créativité au prisme de la coordination”. Revue de Musicologie, vol. 98, n.º 1 (2012), pp. 107-148*—, “Focal Points in Collective Free Improvisation”. Perspectives of New Music, vol. 51, n.º 1 (2013), pp. 40-55*—, “Du concept d'improvisation à la pratique de l'improvisation libre”. International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, vol. 47, n.º 1 (2016), pp. 17-43*CORBETT, John, A Listener's Guide to Free Improvisation. University of Chicago Press, 2016COSTA, Rogério, “Free Musical Improvisation and the Philosophy of Gilles Deleuze”. Perspectives of New Music, vol. 49, n.º 1 (2011), pp. 127-142*DENZIER, Bertrand y Jean-Luc Guionnet (eds.), The Practice of Musical Improvisation: Dialogues with Contemporary Musical Improvisers. Bloomsbury, 2021*GALIANA, Josep Lluís, “De la naturaleza de la improvisación libre: elementos esenciales para su identificación y diferencias con la composición escrita”. Itamar: Revista de Investigación Musical: Territorios del Arte, n.º 4 (2018), pp. 26-49*—, Emociones sonoras: de la creación electroacústica, la improvisación libre, el arte sonoro y otras músicas experimentales. EdictOràlia, 2020*HOYER, Timo, Anthony Braxton: Creative Music. Wolke Verlag, 2022IRETA SÁNCHEZ, Iván Tadeo, La improvisación libre en solo: una aproximación fenomenológica y una proposición de análisis. Tesis doctoral, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 2019MATTHEWS, Wade, Improvisando: la libre creación musical. Turner, 2012*MOLINA ALARCÓN, Miguel, “Auscultando la improvisación libre a la deriva”. En: Quartet de la Deriva. La improvisación libre y la teoría de la deriva. Editorial Obrapropia, 2012MUNÁRRIZ ORTIZ, Jaime, “Del lienzo en blanco al playback. Modelos de improvisación libre en el arte tecnológico”. Revista de Bellas Artes: Revista de Artes Plásticas, Estética, Diseño e Imagen, n.º 14 (2019-2020), pp. 51-67NOGLIK, Bert, “La música improvisada europea”. En: Hurta Cordel. Festival Internacional de Música Improvisada. La Casa Encendida, 2008OLEWNICK, Brian, Keith Rowe: The Room Extended. Powerhouse Books, 2019PIEKUT, Benjamin, “Indeterminacy, Free Improvisation, and the Mixed Avant-Garde: Experimental Music in London, 1965-1975”. Journal of the American Musicological Society, vol. 67, n.º 3 (2014), pp. 769-824*PRÉVOST, Edwin, “Free Improvisation in Music and Capitalism: Resisting Authority and the Cults of Scientism and Celebrity”. En: The Ashgate Research Companion to Experimental Music. Editado por James Saunders. Routledge, 2009*ROD, Johannes, Free Jazz and Improvisation on Vinyl, 1965-1985. Rune Grammofon, 2014SBORDONI, Alessandro et al., Free Improvisation: History and Perspectives. Libreria Musicale Italiana, 2018SALADIN, Matthieu, Esthétique de l'improvisation libre: expérimentation musicale et politique. Les Presses du Réel, 2014*SANSOM, Matthew, “Imaging Music: Abstract Expressionism and Free Improvisation”. Leonardo Music Journal, vol. 11 (2001), pp. 29-34*TOOP, David, En el maelström: música, improvisación y el sueño de la libertad antes de 1970. Caja Negra, 2018ZULIAN, Claudio, “La experiencia del colectivo de improvisación libre: músicas de vanguardia, free jazz y músicas alternativas”. En: Alter (músiques) natives. Generalitat de Catalunya, Departament de Cultura, 1995 *Documento disponible para su consulta en la Sala de Nuevas Músicas de la Biblioteca y Centro de Apoyo a la Investigación de la Fundación Juan March

Patrick Trefz is a multitalented individual known for his work as a photographer, chef, painter, and filmmaker. Trefz has gained recognition for his documentaries, including Thread, Idiosyncrasies, Surfer's Blood, and Man in the Field, which have received acclaim and featured in various publications. In his latest project, Ode to Travel, Trefz's explores the world mixing the metropolitan and the deeply rural by bringing food and culture together in this latest book of recipes and photography.Ode to Travel captures Trefz's innate ability as a traveler to become part of the scenes he finds himself in, not merely as an observer, but as a participant, connecting landscape, seascape, people and food. The book celebrates a worldview of a globe deeply layered and how cultures define communities in the form of its food, traditions and the simple pleasures that bring color to living.  Ode to Travel includes thirty-five recipes from the places Trefz's has come to know intimately. Each recipe that is included is an invitation to experience the local communities through their flavors and traditions.This is his third title with Powerhouse Books, and Patrick Trefz is here with us at the Newsstand Studio at Rockefeller Center. We hope you enjoy... To learn more about Patrick Trefz and Ode to Travel go to https://powerhousebooks.com/ode-to-travel-by-patrick-trefz-in-lookout-santa-cruz/ Or follow him on Instagram at @patricktrefz The Swell Season Podcast is distributed by The Swell Season Surf Radio Network. www.swellseasonsurfradio.comMusic:Band: KraftwerkSong: The ModelAlbum: The Man-MachineBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/swell-season--3483504/support.

Jessica Yatrofsky is a NYC-based artist and activist, known for film and photographic work exploring body politics, beauty, and gender. After receiving her MFA from Parsons the New School for Design, she published her first photography monograph, I Heart Boy, with powerHouse Books in 2010, and her second photography monograph, I Heart Girl, in 2015 with her accompanying film "I Heart Girl - Video Screen Tests," capturing over 100 women featured in her series. The film premiered with i-D Magazine in 2016. Her photographic work has been exhibited internationally in addition to book signings with Barnes&Noble and Strand Books in NYC. In 2015, her film SUN IN MY MOUTH received an Honorable Mention in the LGBTQ “All Out Arts” Fresh Fruit Festival as well as screened during the Northside Film Festival in Brooklyn, New York. In 2016, Yatrofsky was featured in the cover story THE NEW PROGRESSIVES for the “Activists Issue” in Interview Magazine. Her work was featured in the NSFW:Female Gaze group exhibition at the Museum of Sex in NYC from 2017-2018. Yatrofsky's work is part of the permanent collection at the Leslie-Lohman Museum for Gay and Lesbian Art. In 2016, Yatrofsky founded the NY FEM FACTORY, a feminist collective that has hosted and curated literary readings, art exhibitions, and live immersive events in North America and Europe coinciding with the release of her debut book of poetry Pink Privacy. Yatrofsky and the NY FEM FACTORY recently completed a residency at the experimental Institut fur Alles Mogliche in Berlin including collaborations with Soho House Berlin and the German woman's publication, Libertin Magazine. In 2017, Yatrofsky and NY FEM FACTORY curated a live activation for “Performance is Alive” in the Satellite Art Show during Art Basel Miami. In 2018, Yatrofsky and the NY FEM FACTORY curated a reading featuring local female poets hosted with the Ace Hotel in NYC. This winter Yatrofsky and NY FEM FACTORY will cohost the YCC in Miami Beach, FL at the PULSE Art Fair that includes a live performance and curated installation for PULSE PROJECTS. Yatrofsky has curated panel discussions and hosted literary events with The Battery in San Francisco, CA, The Standard in both West Hollywood, CA and Miami, FL as well as participated in artist lectures for the Camera Club of New York, The Robert Giard Foundation, and the International Center for Photography in NYC. From 2016-2017, the Soho House hosted her touring conversation series “Gender Beauty & the Camera.” In 2019, Yatrofsky moderated a PULSE PERSPECTIVES panel discussion on “Art, Mindfulness & the Power of Community” in conversation with SAG actor Tiffany Lighty. Tune in for this in-depth conversation which focuses on all things in the creative process! 1:02-I am an artist 4:36-Inspiration Behind the Lens 7:38-Observing The Surroundings11:11-Art Style-Giving Everyone A Voice 14:57-Being A Film Movie Lover 19:29-3 tips for Artists 20:20-Upcoming Projects 24:04-I am Tell and Tell Secret:I am a solid speed cuber. I solve the rubik's cubeTell and Tell Secret: "I have been cutting my own hair since I was 16 years old"Follow Jessica: Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/jyatrofsky Follow Shawn Zanotti at http://www.thejourneytold.com or http://www.exactpublicity.com Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/publicistshawn Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/shawnzanottihttps://www.thejourneytold.com/Facebook: https://www,facebook.com/thejourneytoldshowInstagram:...

Photographer Rick Schatzberg and I talk about his book, The Boys published by powerHouse Books. It's a book about mortality, vulnerability, and resilience. It reminisces about the lives of 14 men now in their 60's who all grew up as friends on Long Island, including Rick, and the project started when two of the men died within a year of each other.   https://rickschatzberg.com   This episode is sponsored by the Charcoal Book Club, a monthly subscription service for photobook enthusiasts. Working with the most respected names in contemporary photography, Charcoal selects and delivers essential photobooks to a worldwide community of collectors. Each month, members receive a signed, first-edition monograph and an exclusive print to add to their collections. www.charcoalbookclub.com   Rick Schatzberg s a photographer living and making work in Brooklyn, New York and Norfolk, Connecticut. He received his MFA in Photography from the University of Hartford in 2018. Rick holds a degree from Columbia University in Anthropology (1978), played French horn with Cecil Taylor's jazz ensemble in 1970s, and was a business executive and entrepreneur in the New York metropolitan area for many years. In 2015 he completed a one-year certificate program at the International Center of Photography. In the same year, his first monograph, Twenty Two North (self-published), was awarded first prize at Australia's Ballarat Foto International Biennale. His second monograph, The Boys, was published in 2020 by powerHouse Books.

Dr. Probst is the author of Brand Hack: How to Build Brands by Fulfilling the Consumer Quest for Meaning from PowerHouse Books, distributed through Simon & Schuster. He recently spoke with Loyalty360 CEO Mark Johnson about the new book, as well as the state of loyalty marketing.Brand Hacks takes readers on an exploratory journey, revealing why most advertising campaigns fail and examining the personal, social, and cultural meanings that successful brands bring to consumers' everyday lives.The book can be ordered here: https://powerhousebooks.com/books/brand-hacks-how-to-build-brands-by-fulfilling-the-consumer-quest-for-meaning/

Noah talks to South Africa based photographer Roger Ballen and writer Gabrielle Tinti about their new book “The Earth Will Come to Laugh and Feast” released on Powerhouse Books. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/noah-becker4/support

"From a tech perspective, we always have a choice. Do we want to go the route that will foster respect, integrity, kindness, and unity even when we differ? And there might be emotions. Allow for that space to happen and not take it and sensationalize it. And I always will choose that." In this episode, I sit with Adriana Teresa Letorney, the founder and CEO of Visura. Adriana is a force of nature, and we met when we both worked at powerHouse Books. You’ll hear us talk about diversity, media literacy, and how visual storytelling changed with the digital revolution and the economic collapse. What follows is a story about personal history and cultural heritage that continues to inform and shape everything that we do in life. This is a story about feeling vulnerable, owning it, and turning it into empowerment and a way of connecting deeply with people — both professionally and personally. This is how Visura was born. Inside the Episode Check out Visura at https://visura.co Our theme music is by Ben Tyree, and he tweets at https://twitter.com/BenTyree Follow Blissfully Aware host Ioana Friedman at: https://twitter.com/IoanaFriedman I want to hear your feedback. Send it to info@thedaring.co Blissfully Aware is the first podcast series from The Daring. We help organizations of all shapes and sizes cultivate audience affinity through creative strategy, design, and storytelling. Looking for some creative help with your transformation? Visit https://www.thedaring.co --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/blissfullyaware/message

“A wiser feller than myself once said, ‘Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear, well, he eats you.’ ” A few of our listeners may recognize this quote from a certain 1998 movie but, for others, well, it may just be a confusing adage. For today’s episode of the B&H Photography Podcast, however, we did indeed “eat the bear” and are very fortunate to welcome actor, musician, and photographer Jeff Bridges to our show. In addition to being an Academy Award-winning actor, Bridges photographs the “behind-the-scenes” making of his movies with a Widelux swing-lens panoramic film camera, and over the years has collected those images in private editions, made for the cast and crew. In 2003, he published a book called, Jeff Bridges: Pictures, and in October 2019, is releasing the incredible Jeff Bridges: Pictures Volume 2, which “expands on Bridges' intimate vision of Hollywood behind-the-scenes. Included within are rare looks at the famed actors, top directors, talented costumers, and makeup artists, skilled and creative set and art decoration, and the rest of the passionate crews involved in such memorable movies as True Grit, Crazy Heart, The Giver, TRON: Legacy, and Hell or High Water.” With Bridges, we discuss his affinity for the Widelux, and how he handles this camera—known for its idiosyncrasies. We relate the nuts-and-bolts aspects of his workflow, from measuring exposure with a Minolta spot meter  to using ISO 3200 film, to how he composes a frame with a 140-degree angle of view. We also discuss other wide-format cameras, how Bridges works on set with other actors and crew members, the creation of his new book, and the scope of his photographic work, which has become a unique documentation of movie-making from the 1980s until today. Join us for this lively conversation and look for Jeff Bridges: Pictures Volume 2, published by powerHouse Books and distributed by Penguin Random House. All of Bridge’s proceeds from the sale of his book go to the Motion Picture & Television Fund, a nonprofit organization that offers charitable care and support to film-industry workers. When you visit his website, check the link for No Kid Hungry, an organization dedicated to ending childhood hunger and for which Bridges is the national spokesperson. Finally, if you are in the Los Angeles area on October 15, take the opportunity to have Jeff sign your copy of his book at the Book Soup event, on Sunset Blvd. Guest: Jeff Bridges Photograph © Jeff Bridges

BigCity (Stalking Horse Press) Scot Sothern’s profane western satire, BigCity, is a novel with an unforgettable cast, including the wild and lethal Bitch Bantam, pulp writer Slab Pettibone, and his sidekick FuzzyWuzzy the bear, in a tale as moving as it is scandalous. In postbellum America, BigCity nutures the birth of feminism, robber barons, media stardom, and motion pictures. Tall-Tale characters are realized with humor and pathos, sex and violence and nail-biting action. Teeming masses have come this dark megalopolis for a new life and a throw of the dice. Bitch Bantam is a giant of a woman and a living legend. As a tot, she was pitted in back-alley gaming joints, against fighting rats, curs, cocks and hogs. She was victorious in bloody battle yet illiterate and chained to servitude by white slavers. Now, freed of the bonds of slavery, she harbors a quixotic obsession of becoming a refined, civilized, woman like those she sees twirling parasols through the glittering boulevards of BigCity. When Bitch falls in love with the famous hammer-of- justice wielding feminist, Helen Beck, she fears her violent primal instincts will drive her love away. Pulp writer, performer, and rootin-tootin cowboy, Slab Pettibone, has no legs. He travels about, hither and yon, saddled to the back-side of his trusty, four-hundred seventy-six-pound, pet bear FuzzyWuzzy. When great love and loss come together Slab is forced to accept his legendary status as all too human. He strives to be the action-packed hero he created on the written page, while FuzzyWuzzy just wants to eat and shit in the woods. Dooley Paradise, a well-meaning lad with a political bent, orchestrates the daily existence of a self-sufficient orphanage, TumbleHouse. The tatterdemalion tikes are tutored in reading, writing, thievery and solicitation. When TumbleHouse is besieged by a gaggle of crusading dowagers led by famous feminist, Helen Beck, young Dooley becomes a pawn in a no-win scheme of city-wide corruption. Daddy Smithy is a showbiz whiz. He has put together a vaudeville extravaganza with Slab Pettibone, FuzzyWuzzy, and Bitch Bantam topping the bill. Now Daddy needs financing to tackle the new medium of moving-pictures. When he barters his six-year- old daughter to twisted tobacco tycoon Warner Quackenbush, he sets in motion a chain of violence and revenge. BigCity is a fantastical adventure and love story examining the dynamics of change and the politics of natural selection. Praise for Scot Sothern: “Deliciously strange and compelling, delightfully lurid and fun, Scot Sothern’s debut novel reads like a feral mashup of Cormac McCarthy and William Gibson amped on cornjuice and spiderbite.” – Mark Haskell Smith “Sothern is not a mere voyeur, he wades deeply into zones most never will and renders his subjects with dignity and compassion. Lowlife is a moving and compelling piece of work.”--Henry Rollins “This is raw life without filter, unsentimental, unsparing, brutally beautiful.” - Tara Ison, author of BALL Writer/photographer Scot Sothern, best known for his up-close stories and photographs of street prostitutes in Los Angeles, spent forty years making photographs and drifting from job to job. His first exhibit,Lowlife, opened at the notorious Drkrm Gallery in Los Angeles in 2010 and his first book, Lowlife, was published in the U.K. by Stanley Barker in 2011. Scot’s work has since appeared in numerous online and glossy magazines along with gallery shows in LA, NYC, Miami, and London.  The British Journal of Photography called Lowlife, “The year’s most controversial photobook.”  In 2013 Scot took a two-year gig writing a biweekly column, Nocturnal Submissions, at VICE Magazine. In 2013, Curb Service: A Memoir, was published by Soft Skull Press. In 2016, Streetwalkers, stories and photographs, was published by powerHouse Books. BigCity is his first novel.

Writer / photographer, Scot Sothern, bounced around for forty years. In 2010, at 60, his first solo exhibit, LOWLIFE, photos and stories of life with street prostitutes, was held at the notorious Drkrm Gallery in Los Angeles. His first book of the same title was published in the U.K. by Stanley Barker in 2011. The British Journal of Photography called LOWLIFE, “The years’ most controversial photobook.” Scot’s work has since been exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, Miami, London, and Paris. In 2013 he began a biweekly column, Nocturnal Submissions, for VICE Magazine, and Curb Service: A Memoir, was published by Soft Skull Press. STREETWALKERS, stories and photographs was published by powerHouse Books in February 2016. Writer, Jerry Stahl, called it “An absolutely amazing and essential book." BIG CITY, published in 2017 by Stalking Horse Press, is Sothern’s first novel. Guest Interviewer: Nolwen Cifuentes www.artistdecoded.com

This week on Eat Your Words, host Cathy Erway is joined by Natalie Eve Garrett, an artist, writer, and the editor of The Artists' and Writers' Cookbook: A Collection of Stories with Recipes from powerHouse Books. Inspired by a book from 1961, The (original) Artists' & Writers' Cookbook included recipes from the likes of Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Marianne Moore, and Harper Lee. This new version includes stories and recipes from Joyce Carol Oates, Neil Gaiman, T.C. Boyle, Marina Abramović, and many others.

Today’s guest on the show is documentary photographer Jamel Shabazz. Jamel’s contributions to documentary photography are applauded the all over the world and in my humble opinion Brother Shabazz the is the Gordon Parks of my generation. I marveled at his work way before I knew his name. You have no idea how happy it made me feel to sit at a chess table in the middle of Brooklyn and kick it with some who has and still inspires me to do my best with my skill set every single day. We met up in Dr. Ronald McNair Park across from the Brooklyn Museum to talk about growing up in Brooklyn, self publishing vs traditional publishing, his experience in the military, the summer of 1980, striving to capture images that say something profound, the importance of empathy, the crack era, giving back to the community and much much more. As you are listening to this conversation, I highly recommend you pull up Jamel’s Instagram, website or flip through one of his many photography books as you listen. It will be a great reference to what we are talking about. I’ve provided links to it all at NewYorkSaid.com  Side note, we are in the middle of Brooklyn. So, there will be sirens, there will be interruptions and that’s what you get when you record outside in New York, it tends to want to be present right there with you. That’s enough intro for one show, please enjoy. More About Jamel Shabazz Official Site - http://www.jamelshabazz.com Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/jamelshabazz/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Jamel-Shabazz-16841597946/ Shop for Books by Jamel Shabazz Back in the Days - http://amzn.to/2f2MxIc The Last Sunday June - http://amzn.to/2gcrRJJ A Time Before Crack - http://amzn.to/2fNVx2W Seconds of my Life - http://amzn.to/2gy0i1I Pieces of a Man: Photography of Jamel Shabazz: 1980-2015 - http://www.artvoicesartbooks.com/shop/51k7s88fwm6869fxpfenq2lmkhj9yd Links to the Stuff they Talked About West Indian Parade - http://wiadcacarnival.org Eastern Parkway - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Parkway Brooklyn Museum - https://www.brooklynmuseum.org Brooklyn Botanical Gardens - http://www.bbg.org Powerhouse Books - http://www.powerhousebooks.com Black In White America, a book by photojournalist Leonard Freed - http://n.pr/2fBF0fK Alex Haley: The Playboy Interviews - http://amzn.to/2fBzdXB Platoon (1986) - Rotten Tomatoes - http://bit.ly/2flyJna Marvin Gaye (Song) - What's Happening Brother - http://bit.ly/2gi63Oe Luke Cage - http://bit.ly/2fZ2Jal Puma - http://bit.ly/2fBArBT Delancey Street - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delancey_Street Riders Island - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delancey_Street Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson - http://bit.ly/2gi5R1x Short Eyes (Film) - http://bit.ly/2fnwIKR Attica Correctional Facility - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attica_Correctional_Facility Crack Cocaine - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crack_cocaine Self Destruction (Song) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxyYP_bS_6s The Central Park Five - http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/centralparkfive/ Sam Cooke - A Change Is Gonna Come (Official Lyric Video) - http://bit.ly/2fnInZN Book of Eli - http://bit.ly/2ge0xyl Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture - https://nmaahc.si.edu This episode is sponsored by Gorilla Coffee.

David Shields's new book got his publisher sued by the New York Times. Then his publisher sued Shields. But the fair-use questions surrounding these lawsuits aren't even the most controversial aspects of the book. War Is Beautiful gathers sixty-four color combat photos that appeared on the front page of the New York Times between 1997 and 2013, and many of the photos are, despite their subject matter, quite beautiful. We see a US military convoy driving through a luminous orange sandstorm in Iraq, a pop-art close- up of two homemade Iranian bullet casings, and an Apocalypse Now–grade shot of a marine vehicle sweeping through an Iraqi palm grove in glowing dawn light. Shields argues that these images make a break with the photojournalistic tradition of artful but disturbing photos of war, from the Civil War to Vietnam. Instead, he says, these images function much like Judith Miller's reporting from Iraq: manufacturing our tacit consent for war. The Organist spoke with Shields about this strange, polemical new coffee-table book he's produced. (And, after the credits roll: a short tribute to Alvin Buenaventura, 1976-2016.) Banner image from War is Beautiful by David Shields, published by powerHouse Books

Hey there Word Nerds! I’m so happy you’re here! Today I’m talking to Rachel Hulin, photographer and writer. Her photographs have been shown at Jen Bekman Gallery, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Wallspace Gallery, The New York Photo Festival, and ClampArt Gallery, by which she is represented. She’s also worked as a photo editor in New York for many years at places like Rolling Stone, Radar Magazine, and Nerve.com. Her personal essays and art writing have appeared in The Daily Beast, Huffington Post, PDN, and The Photography Post, which she co-founded.  She has lectured about her own work, professional practices, and about the role of social media in photography at ICP, SVA, Parsons, Brown University, RISD, and MIAD. Rachel's Flying Henry photograph series is also a children’s book of the same name, released by PowerHouse Books in 2013. She has a BA from Brown University and an MA from NYU, and her new project is a novel, Hey Harry Hey Matilda. You can follow the escapades the story of Harry and Matilda on instagram (@HeyHarryHeyMatilda).   In this episode Rachel and I discuss: The birth of a new idea. Refining an idea and the process of platform building. Crafting a narrative on social media. Marketing your book. Plus, Rachel’s #1 tip for writers. Resources: If you want to know more about Rachel’s work you can visit her website. And don’t forget, we’ve got some really exciting things brewing at DIY MFA as we gear up for the book release this summer. If you want to be “in the know” hop on over to DIYMFA.com/join and sign up for our email list. You’ll get a free starter kit, a subscription to our free “sort-of weekly newsletter,” plus you’ll be among the first to hear about any awesome new things we’ve got in the works. For more info and show notes: DIYMFA.com/080

Laura Sims is the author of three books of poetry: My god is this a man, Stranger, and Practice, Restraint (Fence Books); her fourth collection, Staying Alive, is forthcoming from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2016. She edited Fare Forward: Letters from David Markson, a book of her correspondence with the celebrated experimental novelist (powerHouse Books), and has also published five chapbooks of poetry. Her work was included in the anthology, The City Visible: Chicago Poetry for the New Century, and individual poems have recently appeared in: Black Clock, Colorado Review, Talisman, and Denver Quarterly. Sims has been a featured writer for the Poetry Foundation's Harriet blog, and has been a co-editor of Instance Press since 2009. She teaches literature and creative writing at NYU-SCPS and lives with her family in Brooklyn.

Kenneth Goldsmith‘s latest book Seven American Deaths and Disasters (powerHouse Books, 2013), a title taken from the series of Warhol paintings by the same name, is a classic book of defamiliarization. By transcribing the words broadcast in real-time by the media’s unscripted response to historical events, Goldsmith brilliantly drains these infamous moments of cliche. Choosing seven critical moments in American history, which all have in common the spectacle of violence and lose, Goldsmith creates a traumatic prose that yields a poetic response to the John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and John Lennon assassinations, the space shuttle Challenger disaster, the Columbine shootings, 9/11, and the death of Michael Jackson. Because we experience public events most often through the media, those events quickly take on the voltage of performance, and Goldsmith takes advantage of this by being the casting director and choosing who will have the speaking roles. In “Seven American Deaths and Disasters”, most often those speaking roles go to the reporters or radio personalities completely unprepared to articulate what they are reporting. As a result, we see how language fails us, saves us, and also indicts us. At times disturbing and emotional, the book let’s us relive and reconsider those historical events again, but in the present, off-screen, and privately. During our chat, we discuss the resistance his work sometimes encounters in the poetry world, the nature of the “genuine”, how this book deviates from his previous work, and Kenneth and I take turns reading passages from his book, and so much more. I hope you enjoy our chat as much as I did. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Kenneth Goldsmith‘s latest book Seven American Deaths and Disasters (powerHouse Books, 2013), a title taken from the series of Warhol paintings by the same name, is a classic book of defamiliarization. By transcribing the words broadcast in real-time by the media’s unscripted response to historical events, Goldsmith brilliantly drains these infamous moments of cliche. Choosing seven critical moments in American history, which all have in common the spectacle of violence and lose, Goldsmith creates a traumatic prose that yields a poetic response to the John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and John Lennon assassinations, the space shuttle Challenger disaster, the Columbine shootings, 9/11, and the death of Michael Jackson. Because we experience public events most often through the media, those events quickly take on the voltage of performance, and Goldsmith takes advantage of this by being the casting director and choosing who will have the speaking roles. In “Seven American Deaths and Disasters”, most often those speaking roles go to the reporters or radio personalities completely unprepared to articulate what they are reporting. As a result, we see how language fails us, saves us, and also indicts us. At times disturbing and emotional, the book let’s us relive and reconsider those historical events again, but in the present, off-screen, and privately. During our chat, we discuss the resistance his work sometimes encounters in the poetry world, the nature of the “genuine”, how this book deviates from his previous work, and Kenneth and I take turns reading passages from his book, and so much more. I hope you enjoy our chat as much as I did. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the past twelve years, Paola Gianturco has worked as a photojournalist, documenting women’s lives in forty countries. Her new book, Women Who Light the Dark (September 2007) is her fourth published by powerHouse Books. In 2006, Gianturco co-authored with David Hill, ¡Viva Colores! A Salute to the Indomitable People of Guatemala, a bilingual book met with critical acclaim. Her previous book, Celebrating Women (powerHouse Books, October 2004) was the subject of the first exhibit ever curated by the International Museum of Women, San Francisco. Paola is also the co-author/photographer with Toby Tuttle of the best-seller, In Her Hands: Craftswomen Changing the World (powerHouse Books, paperback, 2004; Monacelli Press, hardcover, 2000). This was Gianturco’s first book, inspired by the 1995 United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing.All of Gianturco's books are philanthropic projects, for which she donates her royalties to carefully-selected nonprofit organizations that relate to each book's content. For Women Who Light the Dark, Gianturco is giving 100% of her author royalties to the Global Fund for Women, which advocates for and defends women's human rights by making grants to support women's groups around the world.You can learn more about Paola's work and Women Who Light the Dark on the book's web site: womenwholightthedark.comYou can read a transcript of this interview on my blog, Have Fun * Do Good.