BOOK:Bill Sullivan-Forest Hills,SUN Publications

The West Side Tennis Club is a private tennis club located in Forest Hills, a neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens.. It is the home of the Forest Hills Stadium, a 14,000 seat outdoor tennis stadium and concert venue. It is most notable for hosting 60 editions of the U.S. National Championships first from 1915 to 1920, and t again from 1924 to 1977. In addition, the finals of the Davis Cup were held at the club 10 times, more than any other venue. In addition to hosting the main court for tennis championships, the Forest Hills Stadium has been used as a concert venue featuring artists like Frank Sinatra, The Supremes, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Judy Garland, Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Donna Summer, and Chance the Rapper.Printed in an edition of 500 with 2 cover versions “Forest Hills” is a book that follows the 20^Th century history of tennis and art, confusing and conflating their two stories in order to create a new kind of history. Once the center of tennis in America Forest Hills is now an almost forgotten world, a lost civilization of the sport. Bill Sullivan’s book uses photography and image making to tell the story of its rise and fall parallelling its history with that of art and design. The book follows the history of the site and the stadium as it evolved through the various changes to its surfaces and trappings to its ultimate end. Functioning as an ahistorical/historical document, Forest Hills is a story about a real place as well as a long meditation on how this place and it’s elements may have been viewed by people in the past over time. –Efi Michalarou