Description: Please join us for something out of the ordinary as Fotovision breaks to the stage! Much more than your average lecture and slideshow, the celebration of the new book, The Oxford Project, will feature a theatrical presentation from special guest readers. Come hear the soul of small town America.
The Oxford Project, by photographer Peter Feldstein and award winning author Stephan G. Bloom, features over three hundred photographs of Oxford residents, shot initially in 1984 and again in 2005. The photographs are accompanied with 100 of their personal narratives in what presents itself as an extremely intimate, candid and effecting portrait of one small town.
Don't miss this unique presentation, with guest readers, a slideshow, and a conversation with the authors about the making of the book. A booksigning will follow. Please note that there is an exclusive 15% book discount for attendees. To get a little taste of what the event will be like, watch the video:
Peter Feldstein is an artist working at the intersection of photography, drawing, printmaking, and digital imaging. He has shown at Just Above Midtown Gallery, Vibeke Levy Gallery, and Exposure Gallery (NYC), Roy Boyd Gallery (Chicago), Leedy-Voulkos Gallery (Kansas City), and Olson-Larson Galleries (Des Moines). Feldstein's work has been included in group exhibits at the Center for Creative Photography, Walker Art Center, and the Rhode Island School of Design. He has received an NEA Individual Artist's Grant and two Polaroid Collection Grants. For 32 years, Feldstein taught photography and digital imaging at the University of Iowa School of Art & Art History. Feldstein's work can viewed at http://myweb.uiowa.edu/pfeld/.
Stephen Bloom is the author of Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America, published in 2000. Postville was named a Best Book of the Year by MS-NBC,Chicago Sun-Times, Denver Rocky Mountain News, Chicago Tribune, and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. He also is the author of a collection of nonfiction stories, Inside the Writer's Mind, published in 2002. Bloom has worked as a staff writer for The Los Angeles Times, Dallas Morning News, Sacramento Bee and San Jose Mercury News. He currently is under contract with St. Martin's Press to write Tears of Mermaids: The Secret History of Pearls, a nonfiction detective story. Since 1993, Bloom has taught at the University of Iowa, where he specializes in narrative journalism.
