Holiday Extravaganza

Wednesday, December 5, 2007
Book Signing: 7–8pm | Reception: 8–9pm

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On December 5, The powerHouse Arena will host a holiday extravaganza book signing for Magnum Magnum, a landmark book celebrating sixty years of the famed photography cooperative Magnum Photos. The evening will kick off with a press preview for Magnum Magnum and a VIP reception, to be followed by a public book signing and public reception. Magnum photographers as well as over two dozen powerhouse photographers, artists, and authors will be available for book signings.

At 12.75 x 15.75 inches, 564 pages, and with over 400 four color and duotone photographs Magnum Magnum brings together the greatest work, celebrating the vision, imagination, and brilliance of Magnum photographers, both the acknowledged greats of photography in the twentieth century—among them, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Eve Arnold, and Werner Bischof—and the modern masters and rising stars of our time, such as Martin Parr, Susan Meiselas, Alec Soth, Jim Goldberg, and Jonas Bendiksen.

Magnum photographers will be in attendance that evening signing copies of the book. The list of photographers will be confirmed closer to the event.

*To Pre-order your copy of a book, please call 718 666-3049

For over half a century stern magazine has featured award-winning photojournalism, news, lifestyle, and fashion photography. At the December 5 event, Stern New York will host its First Annual Photo Forum, giving photographers an opportunity to share their work, experience and ideas with photography professionals, enthusiasts and fans. We invite you to celebrate photography with us and with the journalists and artists who make history visible.

powerHouse Books, the world renowned book publisher, will host our annual book signing extravaganza, which will feature appearances by acclaimed fine art photographers, photojournalists, documentarians, filmmakers, artists, and authors including:

Alice Harris, author of The Wedding Album and The Blue Jean
Arlene Gottfried, author of Midnight
Arthur Frank, author of Cowboy Up
Boogie, author of It’s All Good and Boogie
Charlie Ahearn, author of Wild Style The Sampler
Claw Money, author of Bombshell: The Life and Crimes of Claw Money
Ed Kashi & Julie Winokur, authors of Aging in America: The Years Ahead
Eve Sonneman, author of How to Touch What
George Carr, author of Zack Carr
Isabelle Storey, author of Walker’s Way: My Years with Walker Evans
Jamel Shabazz, author of Seconds of My Life, Back in the Days, A Time Before Crack, and The Last Sunday in June
Janette Beckman, author of The Breaks: Stylin and Profilin 1982-1990 and Made in the UK: The Musi of Attitude 1977–1983
Jeff Mermelstein, author of No Title Here
Jimmy & Dena Katz, authors of Salt Dreams
Kent Rogowski, author of Bears
Kevin Bubriski, author of Pilgrimage: Looking at Ground Zero
Leora Kahn, author Darfur, 2007 Lucie Award Winner for Best Photography Book
Mark Peterson, author of Acts of Charity
Nathaniel Welch, author of Jesse James and His Beautiful Machines & Spring Broke
Nigel Parry, author of Blunt and Sharp
Nigel Parry & Melanie Dunea, authors of Precious
Peter Jones, author of Faith Hope and Love
Peter Sutherland, author of Autograf, Pedal, and Buckshots
Ron Galella, author of Disco Years
Seth Kushner & Anthony LaSala, authors of The Brooklynites
Shawn O’Sullivan, author of New York’s Bravest
Slava Mogutin, author of Lost Boys
Dr. Stanley B. Burns, author of Geisha
Steven Katzman, author of The Face of Forgiveness
Sylvia Plachy, author of Red Light: Inside the Sex Industry

RSVP to graham@powerhousebooks.com

The powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
For more information, please call 866-99-ARENA

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