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JOEL GREY’S NEW BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHS “THE FLOWER WHISPERER” RELEASED TODAY

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE

TONY & ACADEMY AWARD®-WINNER
JOEL GREY
RELEASES NEW BOOK OF PHOTOGRAPHS
“THE FLOWER WHISPERER”

COMPANION PHOTO EXHIBITION AT SOHO’S
STALEY-WISE GALLERY
OPENS TODAY

New York, NY (June 19, 2019) —  PowerHouse Books is pleased to announce today’s release of Academy Award, Tony Award®, and Golden Globe Award® winning performer, director and photographer Joel Grey’s The Flower Whisperer his fifth book of photographs. In conjunction with the book release, a companion photo exhibition opens today at SoHo’s Staley-Wise Gallery (100 Crosby Street), featuring photographs from the book (along with additional photos).

Grey’s early passion for flowers and plants helped form a lifelong love for nature’s beauty. From the tender age of just 10 years old, Grey recalls a childhood spent poring over seed catalogs searching for the perfect flower he hoped to someday nurture with love. Growing up adjoining an undeveloped parcel of land just outside of Cleveland, Ohio, Grey enjoyed the magic and splendor of flora while exploring this dark and somehow inviting mini-forest. Searching through weeds and tall grasses, his prize was occasionally his all-time-favorite, a lily of the valley in full bloom.

Today, Grey is a favorite of his local New York City flower market where he can be found regularly indulging his passion. Grey celebrates the fascinating and unique sexuality of these flowers with intimate views of their petals, pistils, and stamens. Shot entirely on his iPhone, The Flower Whisperer is Grey’s personal testament to the mysterious sexual universe of flowers.

With a deep-rooted love for painterly abstraction, Grey’s observations of tulips, roses, poppies, calla lilies, ranunculuses, daffodils, sunflowers, hydrangeas, daisies, and of course Grey’s revered lily of the valley among many others, echo the feeling of the watercolors he has always yearned to create.

In a theatre career that was launched in the early 1950s, Joel Grey‘s credits include Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard (Roundabout), Anything GoesWickedChicagoGeorge M! (Tony Award nom.), and Cabaret (Tony Award). He was Ned Weeks in the Public Theatre’s original off-Broadway production of Larry Kramer’s seminal play, The Normal Heart, in 1986, and co-directed the Tony Award-winning Broadway premiere in 2011. Film credits include Cabaret (Academy Award), Buffalo Bill and the IndiansRemo Williams: The Adventure BeginsDancer In the DarkThe Seven Percent Solution, and many more. Joel is also an internationally exhibited photographer with four published books, Pictures I Had to Take (2003), Looking Hard at Unexamined Things (2006), 1.3: Images From My Phone (2009), and The Billboard Papers (2013). His work is part of the permanent collection of The Whitney Museum of American Art. His memoir, Master of Ceremonies, was released in 2016 (Flatiron Press).

He directed the critically acclaimed Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish with English supertitles which is currently playing at Stage 42.

A partial preview is available by clicking here: The Flower Whisperer

Photography / Nature / Flowers
Hardcover, 9-5/8 x 13-3/8 inches, 120 pages
ISBN: 978-1-57687-918-4, $65.00 US/CAN

High-res scans to your specification are available upon request; scanning from the book or lifting images from the mechanical file are strictly prohibited. Mandatory credit line: From The Flower Whisperer by Joel Grey, published by powerHouse Books.

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