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About Us powerHouse BooksEstablished 1995 powerHouse Arena Established 2006 powerHouse Books, world-renowned and critically acclaimed publisher is best known for a diverse publishing programme—specialized in fine art, documentary, pop culture, fashion, and celebrity books. We have blazed a trail through the staid book publishing industry, releasing books that have sparked cultural trends and redefined commonly held perceptions of the purpose and role of art books in contemporary culture. While much is known of our books, little is known of the people who have made powerHouse Books a global name. Founder and Publisher Daniel Power started powerHouse Book 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, and 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 2000, Cohen became a partner in the company with the title of Vice President and Associate Publisher. He quickly signed up the next company bestseller, Back in the Days by Jamel Shabazz and in the same year developed a packaging deal with Capitol Records to produce the Beastie Boys Anthology: The Sounds of Science. With the publishing programme growing rapidly, Power and Cohen hired Sara Rosen as Publicity Director in 2000, who has since launched her own imprint, Miss Rosen Edition, in 2005. The braintrust of powerHouse Books now set, the company has since redefined the cultural landscape of the illustrated book, the only U.S. independent publishing company to do so. New York September 11 by Magnum Photographers was a visceral, instant document by Magnum and pH, the only thing a publishing company and a photo agency could do in helping the city and the country both remember and recover (Guiliani’s famous response to the terrorist attack was for New Yorkers get back to doing what they do as quickly as possible); the book went on to sell some 300,000 copies worldwide, enabling powerHouse Books to donate over $600,000 to the New York Times 9/11 Neediest Fund. In 2002, pH partnered with Nike to publish Sole Provider: 30 Years of Nike Basketball, a history of their famous sneaker line, which sold out in a record one week. “The relationships we’ve been able to form with corporate partners for branding and packaging has been one of the keys to our success over the past few years,” says Cohen, who worked with the The Gap to secure their promotional support in for Alice Harris’ book The Blue Jean, as well as Olympus and Aveda’s support of Patrick McMullan’s 2004 book InTents as well as more recent deals with international diamond titan De Beers for Alice Harris’ second pH book, The Wedding Album, Puma for The African Game, Ultimate Fighting Championship for Octagon, Burton Snowboards for 28 Day Winter, Glamour for Who Changes the World?, and Urban Outfitters for the new series of pH Classics. 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 37 Main 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. This year, powerHouse launches the Bo Concept Skylounge, a second gallery on the mezzanine featuring furnishings exclusively from Bo Concept. Hosting a series of exhibitions, parties, and live performances, The powerHouse Arena has partnered with companies including Nike for Re–Run, a tribute to their vintage running sneaker; Boost Mobile for All Writes Reserved, an installation by three Los Angeles-based graffiti artists; VH1 Hip Hop Honors for No Sleep ‘til Brooklyn (2006) and Jamel Shabazz’s Seconds of My Life (2007); the Magnum Photo Festival for David Alan Harvey’s Living Proof, and the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival for Wild Style The Sampler. The Arena has also hosted a series of major group exhibitions paying tribute to culture and the world in which we live, celebrating New York City in the 1970s, the Disco era, Andy Warhol, contemporary gay art, and the people of Brooklyn. |
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