Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts

Monday, December 8, 2008

The Oxford Project

I don't watch Sunday morning television (I don't watch ANY morning television) so I didn't see this in real time. I saw a reference to it on EarlyWord and clicked the link they provided, and watched. And I thought, "What a cool project!"

This is a story about a the making of a book of photographs called The Oxford Project. The town, in Iowa, where the project took place reminds me of a lot of towns here in Missouri. The fact that the photographer, who moved there from New York, would have lived there 8 years and was still considered a stranger doesn't surprise me. But he's part of the town now.


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