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Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb welcomed Broadway legend Joel Grey to the Today Show to discuss his new book, 1.3 - Images from My Phone. PowerHouse books has published 1.3 - Images from My Phone, a new collection of photographs by Academy and Tony Award-winning actor and photographer Joel Grey. The slipcased hardcover book, Grey's third published book of photographs, hit bookstores nationwide June 2nd, 2009.

On an out-of-town trip in 2007, Joel Grey found himself in a small St. Lucie, Florida museum, filled with bizarre and eminently photographable objects. Feeling, as he had with the images that became 2006's Looking Hard at Unexamined Things, compelled to capture these provocative tableaux, but having forgotten his trusty Nikon, Grey did the next best thing he could-he reached for his cell phone.

Grey never considered using the camera function of his Nokia 133 before, and was skeptical about the capabilities of its tiny 1.3-megapixel lens. But to his surprise, the same familiar perspective he'd always had when taking photographs was still there; even without a viewfinder, he could make the kinds of pictures he had always loved to make. Grey spent the next eight months shooting with his phone, and the result is 1.3 - Images from My Phone, a collection of slices cut from diverse visual worlds: street art and still life, advertising and architecture, shadows and reflections, natural beauty and urban grit.

NBC News pioneered the morning news program when it launched "Today" over 56 years ago, with Dave Garroway as host. The four-hour live broadcast provides the latest in domestic and international news, weather reports and interviews with newsmakers from the worlds of politics, business, media, entertainment and sports. After more than 48 years of the standard two-hour format, the third hour was launched in October of 2000, making "Today" the only three hour national morning show broadcast. The fourth hour launched in September of 2007. The program is unparalleled in its ratings dominance in the morning news arena, serving as America's overwhelming favorite for 11 consecutive years.