The Durham Bulls announced the pre-sale of the limited-edition fine
art book Bull City Summer: A Season at the Ballpark and Beyond. Edited by Sam Stephenson and published by Daylight Books, Bull
City Summer chronicles the 2013 Durham Bulls season. Featuring photography
and essays, Bull City Summer will be a limited edition with 216 pages total and
129 fine art reproductions from nationally acclaimed photographers. Pre-sale
orders can be made in the team’s online store and at the Ballpark Corner Store
at the DBAP.
Writers involved in the project include
Stephenson, Adam Sobsey, Howard L. Craft, and Allan Gurganus, and photographers
Alex Harris, Frank Hunter, Kate Joyce, Elizabeth Matheson, Leah Sobsey, Alec
Soth, Hank Willis Thomas, Hiroshi Watanabe, and Ivan Weiss. “The goal of
the project,” said Stephenson, “is to converge on the stadium and its surroundings
with a team of artists and documentarians and see what we find – stories,
images – on the field and behind the scenes over the course of a season. The
results will be a portrait of the art and craft and grit of baseball and the
community that revolves around it in the ballpark and downtown Durham.”
Stephenson’s last project, The Jazz Loft
Project, won a 2010 ASCAP-Deems Taylor award for its wide-ranging outcomes
including a book, exhibition, website and public radio series. It also is
the basis for a documentary film and a theatrical play that are currently in
production. A longtime Triangle resident, Stephenson said, “The Jazz Loft
Project concerned a building in New York City 1957-1965 obsessively documented
by photographer W. Eugene Smith. For a decade it felt like I was living in 1959
New York City. By the end I was ready to live in 2013 Raleigh-Durham-Chapel
Hill, to document something happening here now, not New York fifty years ago.”
Bull City Summer is the inaugural project of Stephenson’s new Rock Fish Stew
Institute of Literature and Materials.
Learn more about Durham, NC at www.durham-nc.com.
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