Room 23

Room 23 is a 2009 coffee table fine-art photo book by Bosnian philanthropist Diana Jenkins and English photographer and film director Deborah Anderson. The book features 100 celebrities in a Beverly Hills penthouse.

Background and content

Between late 2007 and early 2008, Bosnian activist and philanthropist Diana Jenkins enlisted the photographic collaboration of English photographer Deborah Anderson to create her erotic coffee table book that would raise funds for Jenkins' non-profit human rights project at UCLA's School of Law.

Produced by Jenkins, Anderson would develop the book's art direction and concept of "a year in the life of a hotel room," telling The Daily Telegraph, "We wanted to portray anything and everything, from Minnie Driver reading a script, topless, in bed, to Jonny Lee Miller in the bath with [Michele Hicks], and Lindsay Lohan in her bra and underwear."

For the book's photoshoot, Jenkins and Anderson recruited 100 actors, singers, models, and musicians to a single suite at the Peninsula Hotel in Beverly Hills, California in 2008; amongst the participating celebrities were Jenkins, George Clooney, Elton John, Lindsay Lohan, Cindy Crawford, and Sharon Stone.

Notable participants

Other notable participants of the book include:

Release

Room 23 was unveiled at the Peninsula Hotel on February 17, 2009. Though initially planned to launch in March 2009, the book debuted in August in 120 countries and was released in American retailers on September 8.

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