The Oxford Project
The Oxford Project

The Oxford Project
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Product NameThe Oxford Project
ManufacturerWelcome Books
Retail Price $50.00
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TitleThe Oxford Project
ISBN1599620480
Author(s)Stephen G. Bloom
Release Date2008-09-16
FormatHardcover
Num of Pages264
Num. of Items1
EAN9781599620480
Weight5 lbs.
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4 Star Rating  "spending some time in a small town"2009-09-18
- Reviewed By User: A3JX4ORDOQCIP5
last night i stayed up for three hours reading this straight through. what a great concept. you feel like you really get to know these people. it's interesting to see how they've changed over 20 years as well. it's kind of fun seeing changes in 'fashion' too. especially the hairdos! well done. great concept.
 
4 Star Rating  "Oxford Project - Interesting Psychology"2009-07-15
- Reviewed By User: A17UXQ5UT27POB
Bought it as a gift for a friend who is an Oral History Professor at a local college..........he loved it! I read it before I gave it to him and found it an extremely interesting study of small-town psychology.
 
5 Star Rating  "Wonderful!"2009-06-29
- Reviewed By User: A31K0H18FK2V3O
I bought this book for my husband for his birthday because I thought the concept was interesting and I had read very favorable reviews. I was not disappointed! The images and stories weave a tapestry of diversity from small town American life that one would not see upon first glance. My husband loved it because it gives some very personal historical counts of modern American history. The photography is amazing. By being shot in black and white allows the viewer to really look at what has changed in twenty years and what has remained the same. Amazing book!!!
 
5 Star Rating  "True-to-life story of small town Iowa"2009-06-16
- Reviewed By User: A383M09A9UDV9Y
This could be any number of the 100's of small towns in Iowa just like the one I grew up in. What an amazing opportunity for this community to be able to be involved in something so wonderful! The stories are intriguing and it is amazing how so many people opened up to the author without holding back. They were honest, forthright and most importantly - they were themselves!
 
5 Star Rating  ""Everyman" in the eyes and words of the citizens of Oxford, Iowa"2009-06-11
- Reviewed By User: A9XX8OHS2ZQ2X
I saw a news segment on television awhile back discussing this book and decided to track down and see a copy for myself. Wow! What an accomplishment and contribution to the history of photography...

In 1984, Peter Feldstein received an Iowa Arts Council grant to help cover his expenses to photograph all of the citizens of the tiny community of Oxford, Iowa (pop. 700). He then showed up, set-up shop in a storefront on Main Street, and in early May, passed out flyers advertising the "free photo" service, and waited. While few showed up initially, over time he gained the trust of the townspeople and managed to capture nearly every citizen on film. By late summer he had photographed 670 residents. Then, after having an exhibition in the Oxford's American Legion Hall, he filed the negatives away and went on with his life as an art professor at the nearby, University of Iowa.

Now, fast forward 21 years to 2005. Feldstein returns and - along with writer and oral historian, Stephen G. Bloom - sets up shop again, this time to "take photographs of as many of the original residents as he could find." Feldstein then photographed them against a plaster wall across the street from the original studio while Bloom spent two years interviewing them, one at a time, then compressing the text of the interviews into a shortened form, approved by the interviewee. While some had passed away, and others had moved off, they managed to include a sizable majority of their former subjects.

Readers are then presented with hundreds of photographs, some 5x7, while others as large as 9-1/2 x 12/1/4, each dated and with informative, narrative text - in the subject's own words - adjacent to the photos or in close proximity. In each photograph, the subject is informally dressed and shown in a full-length pose of their own choice. The end result is a large collection of photographs of individuals showing the effects of age and lifestyle, narrative text providing context for the subjects life and circumstances, all tied together as a community by religious, economic, social and family circumstances.

The visual impact is simply astonishing! Sure to win a number of book design and graphic arts awards, it's a large book that is handsomely and sturdily bound, beautifully laid out that will serve as a remarkable document - not only to students of photography - but, to anthropologists, sociologists, and public and oral historians for generations to come.

Highly recommended for college, university and public library collections, this book is an important contribution to American cultural history.

R. Neil Scott
Middle Tennessee State University
 
5 Star Rating  "Now everyone hangs out around my coffee table...."2009-04-02
- Reviewed By sb-lynn
This book has already been summarized - it's the project of photographer Peter Feldstein, who in 1984, took photos of almost all of the residents of the small town of Oxford, Iowa. 20 years later he returned, and we see these same people, and hear from them about their lives, then and now.

This is a profoundly moving book, because both though the pictures, and the brief stories, we get a really sense of the nature of time and aging, and how our lives don't always proceed as planned. It's about human resilience, and about dashed dreams, and about just getting by. It takes your breath away to see how much changes, and even more so, how much it doesn't.

This is the most popular book on my coffee table (and it has a striking cover), and it's sure to get comments when anyone comes and visits.

Recommended. Especially for those of us who are older and can remember how we were in 1984, and how we see ourselves, today.
 
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