Too much of a good thing

I always liked the idea of using the same object in order to impose the idea of equality.

The Red Couch
Horst Wackerbarth

From Artlurker:

Billed as a gallery of mankind, the project (which has been in development some thirty years) presents a dynamic cross section of the human race with each subject photographed on or with some component of the couch in settings whose geography and manifest impact vary as much as their inhabitants’ respective careers or life stories.

Somehow I liked the project better in the earlier, smaller form of The Red Couch: A Portrait of America. Feels more intimate, in a way, and less vast.

And then there was the Pink Man series (1997-2004) by Manit Sriwanichpoom, although he used repetition for a totally different reason:

And Anay Mann used a foldable chair. The most politicised out of the three, it seems. But then again, what do I know. From Photoink gallery in New Delhi:

Equal Dreams: Portraits of Indians. (Photos from here)

There's another project lurking -- one which involved a pair of gold stilettos in various locations all over Europe, but for the life of me I simply cannot remember who did it or where I saw it.