A Day at the Lake tells the story of an end-of-school-year class trip. The year was 2000 and the location a lake in Germany. At the time photographer and author Hans Hickerson was teaching English at a school in Saarbrücken, and he and a colleague took a class of seventh graders on a day-long excursion.
The representation of an event that left behind memories as well as photographs, the book embodies first-person reportage along with a measure of Gerry Badger's "personal poetics of lived experience.”
Like several of Hickerson’s photobooks, A Day at the Lake offers a distinctive contribution to the contemporary photobook conversation with its image / text narrative as well as its choice of subject – an unremarkable event but also an example of the universal inhabiting the commonplace.
Hardcover, sewn binding, 8.5 X 8.5”, 96 pages, 78 duotone black and white photographs, edition of 500.
A Day at the Lake tells the story of an end-of-school-year class trip. The year was 2000 and the location a lake in Germany. At the time photographer and author Hans Hickerson was teaching English at a school in Saarbrücken, and he and a colleague took a class of seventh graders on a day-long excursion.
The representation of an event that left behind memories as well as photographs, the book embodies first-person reportage along with a measure of Gerry Badger's "personal poetics of lived experience.”
Like several of Hickerson’s photobooks, A Day at the Lake offers a distinctive contribution to the contemporary photobook conversation with its image / text narrative as well as its choice of subject – an unremarkable event but also an example of the universal inhabiting the commonplace.
Hardcover, sewn binding, 8.5 X 8.5”, 96 pages, 78 duotone black and white photographs, edition of 500.