One Day – Ten Photographers – PhotoBook Journal

Review by Douglas Stockdale •

The concept for this series of photo books was developed by Harvey Benge, who subsequently acted as the project Editor. Essentially the ten selected photographers would produce a photobook based on the photographs of a specific day; June 21, 2010. Other than that, no rules. The resulting photobooks were Jessica Backhaus’s Neukolln, Berlin, Gerry Badger’s Weltmeister Blues, Harvey Benge’s Auckland, New Zealand, John Gossage’s Waking in Warhol’s Bed, Todd Hido’s Oakland+Modesto, Rob Hornstra’s Utrecht, the Netherlands, Rinko Kawauchi’s Fundamental Cycles, Eva Maria Ocherbauer’s A Midsummer Day’s Dream, Martin Parr’s Bristol, England, Alec Soth’s Gus the Great. What results is an eclectic set of photobooks with a mash-up of content, themes and subjects. The books which were the most intriguing for me are by Badger, Benge, Kawauchi and Parr.

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Photographers; Jessica Backhaus, Gerry Badger, Harvey Benge, John Gossage, Todd Hido, Rob Hornstra, Rinko Kawauchi, Eva Maria Ocherbauer, Martin Parr, Alec Soth

Text: English

A set of ten individual hardcover books in a printed chipboard slipcover, sewn binding, four-color lithography, printed in Germany

Photobook designer: Harvey Benge (Editor)

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