powerHouse Books and Redux Pictures are pleased to announce a new partnership for international representation. Beginning in Fall 2007, Redux Pictures will handle international serial rights to select powerHouse Books titles including upcoming releases from Jamel Shabazz, Janette Beckman, Julia Calfee, Seth Kushner & Anthony LaSala, Nathaniel Welch, Carolyn Russo, and David Yellen, as well as a memoir by Walker Evans’ former wife Isabelle Storey.
“Our partnership with Redux Pictures will enable powerHouse to reach an even larger international audience, offering greater exposure of our collective visual history as it is lived across the United States and throughout the world,” comments Sara Rosen, Publicity Director of powerHouse Books.
The first titles to be handled by Redux include:
The Brooklynites: Photographs by Seth Kushner, Text by Anthony LaSala, Foreword by Terrence Winter
A complex and quixotic urban animal found ranging across southwest New York, the Brooklynite has obtained a sort of mythological status, representing the “you tawkin’ to me” attitude for which the city is known. For over three years, writer Anthony LaSala and photographer Seth Kushner trekked tirelessly across the borough, documenting these charismatic characters in The Brooklynites, a collection of images, interviews, and essays.
Hair Wars: Photographs by David Yellen, Introduction and Interviews by Johanna Lenander
Remote controlled hairy-copters, an eight-foot wide hawk, a birthday cake spouting confetti, a working barbeque grill, a Bible made of hair—these are just a few creations featured in Hair Wars, David Yellen’s jaw-dropping collection of portraits taken at the touring American showcase of the same name. Combining advanced styling techniques, countless pounds of human hair extensions, and irrepressible imagination, these proudly outrageous coiffures take the time-honored tradition and culture of African American hairstyling out of the beauty parlor and onto the runway.
Walker’s Way: My Years with Walker Evans by Isabelle Storey
Walker’s Way: My Years with Walker Evans, Isabelle Storey’s memoir of her ten-year marriage to Walker Evans, is the story of an elegant young woman’s infatuation with a great American artist—with the man himself, with what he stood for aesthetically, and with his artistic and social circle—and how her initial passion gradually cooled into disenchantment.
