Book Signing
Oakland Book Signing with Tabitha Soren
Saturday, September 21
4:30 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. PDT
On the occasion of the Oakland Athletics’ final home game against the New York Yankees at the Oakland Coliseum, the baseball team’s home field since 1968, Tabitha Soren will be signing copies of her book Fantasy Life: Baseball and the American Dream (Aperture, 2017) to commemorate the many years she dedicated to documenting the stadium and the lives of A’s players both on and off the field.
Tickets to the baseball game are required to enter the stadium for the book signing. Soren’s book signing begins at 4:30 p.m. in the East Side Club, located within the Treehouse of the Oakland Coliseum. The game begins at 6:07 p.m.
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. Fifteen years after that first shoot, Fantasy Life portrays a selection of their 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. Together, these elements evoke the enduring spirit of this quintessential American fantasy of making it in the big leagues.
Select photographs from Fantasy Life: Baseball and the American Dream will be included in Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture, on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 19, 2024–February 18, 2025.
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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; 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, the California Sunday Magazine, and ESPN The Magazine. She is represented by the Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles.
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Image: Tabitha Soren, Night on the Green fireworks, Oakland, California, 2014; from Fantasy Life: Baseball and the American Dream (Aperture, 2017)
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