Bull City Summer: A Season At The Ballpark unites a group of artists and documentarians (Hiroshi Watanabe, Alec Soth, and Hank Willis Thomas) around the 2013 season of minor league baseball in Durham, North Carolina, evoking an atmosphere described by The New York Times as lazing out on the porch of a summer''s night and meditating to your favorite ball team.
Alec Soth (b. 1969) is a photographer born and based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His photographs have been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, including the 2004 Whitney and São Paulo Biennials. Soth has been the recipient of numerous fellowships and awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship (2013). In 2008, Soth started his own publishing company, Little Brown Mushroom. Soth is represented by Sean Kelly in New York, Weinstein Gallery in Minneapolis, Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco, and is a member of Magnum Photos.
Hank Willis Thomas is a photo conceptual arti
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“Bull City is pretty much like lazing out on the porch of a summer’s night and meditating to your favorite ball team.”,
- The New York Times, July 10, 2014
“...captures not only the atmosphere at the games and in the stadium but also the complexities of being a minor-league baseball player.”,
- The New Yorker, August 13, 2014
“A rich photo book interspersed with smart, poignant essays about the game’s rhythm, its injustice, and its occasional grace.”,
- Mother Jones, August 31, 2014
