The Photography

Still photography and moving pictures are important media to me.  After studying cinematography I felt compelled to study the finer points of stills to gather them each in as a distinct medium and have each one instruct the other. The Time After looks at the two media in a different way, imitating one with the other to synthesize a captured memory of an idea more continuous that those normally found in simple static still frames. ¶ View In Entirety… →

re you like me? Have you ever read one of Front 40’s books and thought, “this is good, but I wish I could see this in a museum because this artwork is great”? Well, now you can. This Sunday is the grand opening of an exhibit that they are curating at the Hyde Park Art Center that complements (and goes by the same name as) their book Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture. The opening reception for the exhibit is this Sunday from 3-5pm and it will stay open until September 20th. Check out the press release for more information.

oug Fogelson, founder of Front 40 Press, weighs in on global warming in his new book The time After.  Front 40 specializes in coffee table style art books, and The Time After is no exception.  The book is a labor of love completed after many years of contemplation.  Fogelson uses his photography to explore global warming and climate change in an artistic way.  Head to Time Out Chicago for the full interview and review, or stay tuned for our review of The Time After, which will be coming soon.

his week is continuing to be enormous in terms of publishing news.

To begin with, there are two days worthy of note:  Buy Indie Day and Free Comic Book Day.  Buy Indie Day is happening tomorrow, Friday, May 1st.  It was started in order to financially support Indie Bookstores and also to help build a community of writers, publishers, and booksellers who care about Indie Bookstores.  If you’re interested in attending, find an Indie Bookseller near you.  Furthermore, if you’re interested in comics, free stuff, or both, you should definitely participate in Free Comic Book Day.  Participating comic book stores will be giving out comics absolutely free, and there are lots in Chicago.  You can search them by zip code here.

The University of Illinois at Chicago’s brand new literary journal, Packingtown Review, just released their first issue.  The journal costs $13, and you can order a copy or pick one up tonight at Jak’s tap from 4-6.

Front 40 Press‘ new book The Time After received an Honorable Mention Award at the 2009 Green Book Festival.

Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip , published by Chicago Review Press, was reviewed by Publisher’s Weekly.  The book, due out in May, is enjoying quite a bit of success already.

StepSister Press recently interviewed Doug Fogelson, founder and director of Front 40 Press, both based out of Chicago. He talks about the history of Front 40, as well as their most recent title, The Time After, which was recently featured on our April 2009 list of featured books by Chicago publishers. You can read the full interview at the StepSister Press blog.

“‘Our visual life is spent in the center of a nearly hemispheric transparent shell whose distance from us we fixate. The rest of the world is a jumble of subliminal double images. -Paul Shepard (on binocular vision, from Man in the Landscape 1967)

“Front Forty Press is pleased to announce our next title, The Time After, which uses temporality to stimulate a deeper consideration of the ‘post climate change’ era. Photography by Doug Fogelson and design by Tim Hartford are woven with essays from Derrick Jensen, Eiren Caffall, and Bridgette R. McCullough Alexander, as The Time After speaks to our changing understanding of the human role in the environment.

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