THE OXFORD PROJECT

In the spring and summer of 1984, photographer Peter Feldstein announced that he wanted to take free portraits of everyone in Oxford, Iowa (pop. 673). By the end of the summer, he’d photographed 670 Oxford residents.

Twenty-one years later, Feldstein went back, and this time he brought along writer Stephen G. Bloom to document people’s stories. The Oxford Project (Welcome Books) is the remarkable portrait of a small town, as Bloom notes below, “virtually untouched by both the vitality and vulgarity of urban America.”

Read more about this amazing project here.