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A Day at the Lake

A Day at the Lake

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A Day at the Lake tells the story of an end-of-school-year class trip. The year was 2020 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 middle schoolers 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.
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About — Retired from a teaching career in 2023, Fishpond Press founder Hans Hickerson has been mining decades of negatives to contribute books with novel subjects and forms to the photobook conversation. Hickerson has made photographs since the 1970s and over the years has explored different ways of working, including collage, cut-outs, framing in non-traditional ways, and contextualizing photographs in books. He has a degree in French from Portland State University and a Maîtrise de Lettres Modernes from the University of Avignon. He reviews photobooks for online magazine PhotoBook Journal where he serves as Co-Editor.