For Immediate Release – May 6, 2010
Contact: Julia Shell, juliashell@juliashellpr.com or 312-203-3130
(CHICAGO, IL) – Book Release on May 15, 2010 – The Globe by Chester Alamo & Costello with essays by Jamie Michael Bradley, Sandra Kaminska Costello, Aaron Patrick Flanagan, John Goodwin, Jamie Hale and Stuart Johnston.
The Globe is a photo and art book with essays that document the experience of watching a European style football match in Chicago’s own Globe Pub. Since 2005, Alamo & Costello has documented the trials and tribulations of local (and international) supporters engaged in this world sport. The flow of this monograph follows the events of a match (including penalty kicks) through drawings and photographs. Chester Alamo & Costello is Associate Professor of Art and Design at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois. The Globe is his 2nd monograph.
Book signing:
Thursday, June 10, 2010 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. (The night before the kickoff of the 2010 World Cup)
The Globe Pub, 1934 West Irving Park Road, Chicago, IL 60613
Phone: (773) 871-3757
From the dust jacket:
An affecting and deeply subjective representation of the emotions and atmosphere that characterize the confluence of sport, event, time, place, and people in a dedicated football (soccer) pub in Chicago. As the sport begins to (finally) gain visibility in America, Alamo & Costello’s The Globe presents a compelling document of how certain places and people helped to change its perception and spectatorship in this part of the world at this moment in time.
- Dominic Molon, Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
If soccer is religion, The Globe is one of its temples. Chester Alamo & Costello's book captures the beauty and elation of the believers. His photographs tell you why soccer matters.
- Aleksandar Hemon has played soccer for as long as he can remember, in both Sarajevo and Chicago, is the author of Love & Obstacles and the Lazarus Project, and has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a MacArthur “genius grant”
Soccer makes you bite your nails, hold your head in your hands, punch the air with delight when your team scores, watch stunned as they lose. It's all here in The Globe. The fans, the passion, the spectacle, the beautiful game, brought to you in glorious color from a pub on the northwest side of Chicago. Critics may say that soccer's not an American sport. They're right - because as The Globe shows, soccer's the world's sport, and when you can't be at the game, you can experience the highs and lows, joy and despair, at The Globe
- Euan Hague is an Associate Professor of Geography at DePaul University. Originally from Scotland, he is a soccer analyst for WBEZ Chicago's Worldview
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