Tabitha Soren: Fantasy Life: Baseball and the American Dream
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (867 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1597113859 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 136 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Tabitha Soren left a successful career in television in 1999 to start another one as a photographer. Her work is included in public collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oakland Museum of California; Transformer Station, Cleveland, Ohio; Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco; New Orleans Museum of Art; Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indiana; and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans. She is represented
"Read some about the actual book as it's more photos than stories with photos." according to Nick. Purchased the book for a friend as a birthday gift, I had a chance to to look through all of it in a day therein lies the problem I think for not understanding the product in depth. It's mostly pictures overall and little back story on each person chronicled in it IMO. Buy this if . "The Side Effects of Basebll" according to Robert C. Berring. A thing of beauty. Based on a great ideafollowing the lives of a class of men drafted by major league baseball. Wonderull pictures and soled commentary. It helps that I am an A's fan.. "The Moneyball companion you didn't know existed!" according to James R.. This is basically the photo-art sequel/companion to Michael Lewis' "Moneyball" - 15 years in the making!! If you are a baseball fan you will appreciate it; if you like to critique art photography you can go crazy in it; if you are an Oakland A's fan wanting to reminisce about the e
She is represented by the Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles. Her work has been featured in Dear Dave, McSweeney’s, Vanity Fair, New York Times Magazine, Blink, Slate, New York, Sports Illustrated, California Sunday Magazine, and ESPN The Magazine. . About the Author Tabitha Soren left a successful career in television in 1999 to start another one as a photographer. Her work is included in public collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Oakland Museum of California; Transformer Station, Cleveland, Ohio; Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco; New Orleans Museum of Art; Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indiana; and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans
Additionally, a number of the featured players add their own real-life experiences of trying to make it to “The Show.” Together, these elements evoke the enduring spirit of this quintessential American fantasy of making it in the major leagues.. Fifteen years after that first shoot, Fantasy Life portrays a selection of these stories, gathering together a richly textured series of photographs taken on the field and behind the scenes at games, along with commentaries by each of the players and memorabilia from their livesfrom kindergarten-age baseball cards to x-rays of player injuries. Others have struggled with poverty and even homelessness. Some left baseball to pursue other lines of work, such as selling insurance and coal mining. Some of the subjects, like Nick Swisher and Joe Blanton, have gone on to become well-known, respected players at the highest level of the game. Since then, she has followed the players through their baseball lives, an alternate reality of long bus rides, on-field injuries, friendships and marriages entered and exited, constant motion, and very hard work, often for very little return. Dave Eggers contributes five linked short stories that compellingly condense the roller-coaster ride of the minor-league everyman, from youthful pursuit of stardom through the slog of endless hardscrabble games, to that mome