The 46-year-old international trade lawyer has been notable for her gentle but firm rejection of the traditional role of political spouse, refusing to allow the couple's three children to pose for family press portraits.
On July 5, 2011, St . Martins Press published "Portrait of a Monster: Joran van der Sloot, a Murder in Peru, and the Natalee Holloway Mystery" by Lisa Pulitzer and Cole Thompson.
Instead they have sought out some overlooked books and small presses: a portrait of Bucharest in the last days of the Ceaucescu regime from Welsh publisher Seren; a gritty East London drama from Oneworld; a dystopia about a future in which biological terrorrism makes pregnancy fatal from Sandstone.
The great flowering of Beckham's pop celebrity brought much chin-stroking dissection in the broadsheet press, a Sam Taylor-Wood portrait in the National Portrait Gallery and assorted Beckham-related university degree modules.
Scrambled images of CNN broadcasts, a squawking, staticky Vladimir Putin as part of his freedom of the press series, a portrait of a laughing Obama that manages to make the president look downright sinister.
It is a relief to open the press kit for "Portrait of the Artist as a Dumb Blonde" and see pictures of its playwright and star, Sharon Fogarty, with her natural brunet hair.
"Kertzer's taken the worst examples said and done in the name of the church and argued that they were central to the teachings of the Catholic Church," said Ronald Rychlak, the associate dean of the University of Mississippi law school and the author of "Hitler, the War and the Pope" (Genesis Press), a sympathetic portrait of Pope Pius XII.
Violetta, meanwhile, presses a miniature portrait of herself into the grieving Alfredo's hand.
It is Mr. Press's team portraits, however, that best tell these students' story.
"Amelia Earhart: Image and Icon," a handsomely designed album of their teamwork as self-promoters — portraits, press clippings, ads, and illustrations — was published two years ago, with notes and commentary by the editors, Kristen Lubben and Erin Barnett, and essays by Butler and Susan Ware.
