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A Year in Avignon

A Year in Avignon

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A memoir in photographs and texts, A Year in Avignon documents a college study-abroad year in the late 1970s. Author Hans Hickerson observes the local people, places, and culture as an outsider but also as a participant. As we follow his experiences and travels we meet and read about his homestay family, foreign friends, and fellow American students. Themed chapters offer photographs attuned to social context and cultural nuance, and together images and texts chronicle a young person’s study abroad adventure.

Along with its novel choice of subject A Year in Avignon contributes to the contemporary photobook’s dialogue with form through its distinctive image / text narrative technique.

“A sweet book. At first I thought I might be headed for Godard’s France, but I soon found myself in something closer to Eric Rohmer’s.” - Robert Adams

Hardcover, 10 X 9”, 144 pages, 114 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.

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