Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out

The late rock promoter recounts his life as a refugee from the Holocaust, his rise to fame in the recording industry, and his launching of such stars as Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, and the Grateful Dead. 75,000 first printing. $75,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock And Out

Biographies & Memoirs

Bill Graham

Robert Greenfield

Arts & Literature

DOUBLEDAY

INCREDIBLY DANGEROUS, DEADLY, AND FUN. Incredible Stunts is like Fear Factor on steroids. Famed action photographer Jeffery R. Werner has assembled an amazing collection of images from his exclusive archive of photos taken over the past two decades of daredevils and stuntmen pushing themselves to the limit. This is the first full-length, extensive photo book of stunts, extreme sports, and daredevil mayhem created for both kids and adults alike. Daredevils inhabit an adrenaline-drenched world where motorcycles fly, people dive through flaming infernos, airplanes hug the ground, and bodies are shattered more often than records. New faces come and go so fast that the only 'regulars' are the paramedics who pick up the pieces... and photojournalist Jeffery R. Werner. Daredevils are an extreme form of stuntmen who, like Evel Knievel, do increasingly dangerous stunts, searching for that elusive combination of fame, fortune, and glory. This concept made Evel Knievel millions as he gambled his life on jumping ever further on his motorcycle, setting a Guinness World Record for the most broken bones from over a dozen major crashes during his career. A near-fatal crash while attempting to jump the fountains at Caesar s Palace in Las Vegas left him in a month-long coma. Heavy media coverage speculating when, and if, he'd regain consciousness made him a household name. This is the sort of legacy on which legions of daredevils stake their lives and their livelihoods. No one knows this bizarre world better than Jeffery R. Werner who, at times, has had to risk his own life to capture these death-defying images. Werner has spent nearly three decades traveling to over 60 countries to cover the high-velocity drama and mayhem captured for posterity in this book. Dubbed 'the da Vinci of Daredevil Photography', he has carved his niche as the best action photographer in the business. Werner's ability to capture what Cartier-Bresson called 'the decisive moment' in this dynamic collection of daredevils and other eccentrics is unmatched by anyone, anywhere. Incredible Stunts also explores the world of film and TV stunts, as well as the stunt masters whose innovative skills inject an air of impossibility into every action sequence they create and choreograph. For his spectacular body of work, Werner was inducted into The Stuntworld Hall of Fame, an honor never before bestowed on a still photographer.

Incredible Stunts: The Chaos, Crashes, and Courage of the World's Wildest Stuntmen and Daredevils with a Special Tribute to Evel Knievel

Arts & Photography

Jeffery R. Werner

Stacey Linh

Photography & Video

Incredible Features, Inc. / incrediblestunts.com

The Art of the Fillmore: The Poster Series 1966-1971

Legendary impresario Bill Graham began in January 1966 to commission posters to promote the concerts he was putting on at San Francisco's Fillmore Auditorium. The poster artists created vivid, irreverent banners that reflected their own sense of poetics, style, and wit. What resulted were signature juxtapositions of design, lettering, and color that represented a brand-new art form. These posters now occupy a place in art history while surviving as treasured artifacts of rock archaeology. 
Published in cooperation with Bill Graham Presents, The Art of the Fillmore reunites for the first time in a single volume the original Bill Graham posters created exclusively for the San Francisco and New York Fillmore dance concerts. Indexes cross-reference the posters with the bands they advertised and the poster artists who created them.

Gayle Lemke

Da Capo Press

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