One-Thing-After-Another

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One-Thing-After-Another is a visual reader of post-war British history. Drawing from an archive of 3000 images, the volume reshuffles the material contained in The Book of Knowledge, a popular eight-volume encyclopaedia from Fifties Britain tailored to a readership of juveniles, and containing short illustrated articles on a wide range of topics from astronomy to religion, magic and zoology. Moments and places in time collapse into a single liquid montage, which suggests that editing images of reality means editing reality itself. The book questions the role of photography in shaping political reality.

Inspired by the game present at the end of each of The Book of Knowledge’s eight volumes, Shibboleth designed a picture quiz bellyband. On the front are all the images Mick Finch has used to build his narrative sequence. On the back, the descriptions of the same images are to be matched with the spread in which they appear in the book.

The bellyband is used as a starting point for workshops and classes operating at different levels of image-reading. It asks children to deconstruct the dense visuals in the book by singling out the parts from the whole, inviting a closer observation of reality. It provides sensory stimulation for people with autism to work on their short attention span. It invites adults to question the narratives they were originally taught in school by looking at the associations they come across in the volume.

The Book was awarded a Special Mention for Best Photobook by the 2024 Immagini Rilegate Award, Milan, Italy.

Pages: 208
Dimensions: 148 x 2210 mm
Format: Softcover
Language: English
Year: 2024
Publisher: Shibboleth