Tabitha Soren

Fantasy Life: Baseball and the American Dream

Dave Eggers, Joe Blanton, Tabitha Soren

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English

Aperture
10 July 2017

Individual photographers; Photographs: portraits; Baseball

"In 2002, Tabitha Soren first began photographing a group of minor league draft picks

for the Oakland A's-young men coming into the major league farm system straight

from high school or college. 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. 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. Some

left baseball to pursue other lines of work, such as selling insurance and coal mining.

Others have struggled with poverty and even homelessness. 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 lives-from kindergarten-age baseball cards to x-rays

of player injuries. Dave Eggers contributes a five-part short story that compellingly

condenses the roller-coaster ride of the minor-league everyman, from youthful

pursuit of stardom through the slog of endless hardscrabble games, to that moment

of realization that success may not be just around the corner after all. Additonally,

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."

By: Dave Eggers, Joe Blanton, Tabitha Soren
Imprint: Aperture
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 270mm, Width: 218mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 990g
ISBN: 9781597113854
ISBN 10: 1597113859
Pages: 136
Publication Date: 10 July 2017
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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. 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. She is represented by the Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles.