limited edition signed by Hido, with an original 16 3/4 x 13 3/8 inch chromogenic print ‘#2745’ printed by Hido, image size 14 x 11 inches (print edition of 25 numbered and signed on verso by Hido). [The print is not reproduced in the book but is similar to another image included]. - From the publisher: "Todd Hido’s large color photographs of suburbia are lonely, forlorn, mysterious... and strangely comforting. Hido photographs the interior rooms of repossessed tract homes, and the outsides of similar houses at night whose habitation is suggested by the glow of a television set or unseen overhead bulb. Seldom does the similar evoke such melancholy. Yet rather than passing judgment on his anonymous subjects, Hido manages to turn the banal into something beautiful, imbuing his prints of interiors with soft pastels, and allowing the exteriors to glow in the cool evening air."
From the publisher: "This stunning new book by Todd Hido is a perfect companion volume to his first title, House Hunting, which was named "Best First Monograph of 2001" by Photo-Eye and is now a limited quantity title. Hido's large-format color photographs of suburbia convey an aura of loneliness, mystery and isolation while managing, at the same time, to exude comfort and even warmth. His portraits of tract homes are imbued with an eerie softness, their exteriors glowing invitingly - or is it ominously? - in the cool night air. An essay by the eminent writer Luc Sante, entitled "Stranger," brilliantly echoes Hido's work and is a fine introduction to the book. Todd Hido was the recipient of the 2001 Eureka Fellowship. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the New Orleans Museum of Art, as well as in other public and private collections." From Mary Hull Webster, Artweek: "Photography is arguably the most accomplished art form of the moment, and one of its most intelligent practitioners is Todd Hido."
From the publisher: "The work in Roaming appears arrestingly different than that in Todd Hido's previous two monographs. It is as if, having spent so many nights outside the eerie, brightly lit suburban tract homes featured in House Hunting and Outskirts, he has suddenly put his foot on the gas pedal and driven into the next day. But these landscapes continue Hido's mastery in portraying the most mundane scenes with a menacing air of expectancy. These unpeopled pictures, often taken through a car windshield, are so effective in creating tension they might almost have been staged. But in fact they are taken "as seen"; the telegraph poles, the straggling tree, the road leading nowhere are all exactly as encountered by Hido as he drove through Eastern Washington State, the California Central Valley, Indiana, South Louisiana and beyond."
Complete set of four books. Each book is from a special limited edition of 500 copies hand-numbered and signed by Hido, with one hinged original Type-C print (4 3/4 x 3 3/4 inches). The complete set of all four versions is housed in a cardboard slipcase with pasted-on printed title. Out-of-print (sold out upon publication). Extremely scarce (estimated to be only 50-60 complete sets of 4 books released by the publisher). - From the publisher: "Todd Hido's first monograph, House Hunting, was recently published to wide critical acclaim. We are now pleased to announce the artist's contribution to our One Picture Book series. The subject is a single house on the ubiquitous ,Taft Street’ photographed during four distinct seasons. The book contains reproductions of all four photographs in the series, beautifully printed in lush process color. Each book also contains an original print of one of the four images. The total print run of 500 copies has been divided into four versions of 125 copies each. Each version is available individually; a slipcased set of all four is also available while supplies last. Todd Hido is a San Francisco-based artist whose work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, Doubletake, Metropolis, Wired, and Surface. Hido is a recipient of a 2001 Eureka Fellowship. His photographs are represented in the permanent collections of such institutions as the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Todd Hido's work will be the subject of solo exhibitions at the Kemper Museum of Art and the Cleveland Art Museums in 2002."
Photographs by Todd Hido. A very scarce book. From the publisher: "Todd Hido's large color photographs of suburbia are lonely, forlorn, mysterious... and strangely comforting. Hido photographs the interior rooms of repossessed tract homes, and the outsides of similar houses at night whose habitation is suggested by the glow of a television set or unseen overhead bulb. Seldom does the similar evoke such melancholy. Yet rather than passing judgment on his anonymous subjects, Hido manages to turn the banal into something beautiful, imbuing his prints of interiors with soft pastels, and allowing the exteriors to glow in the cool evening air."
Text engl. - As guest editor of Witness Number 7, Todd Hido creates a relationship between his own photographs of vacant interiors of foreclosed homes – the first time this series has been published as a group – with portraits made by Leon Borensztein during the 1980s. Hido’s images contain traces and impressions of lives previously having been lived in the now-empty homes. His potent and surreal photographs of empty spaces evoke a longing for the time when things were better in those homes. What went wrong? Who used to lived there? Borensztein, an immigrant from Poland, visited homes and businesses in the suburbs of Stockton, Fresno and Bakersfield, photographing his subjects in front of a generic backdrop to create a rich sociological document. In Witness Number 7, Borensztein’s subjects stand in metaphorically for the families evicted from Hido’s foreclosed homes. The book closes with what Hido describes as “a slowly cooked stew of books” – a forty-page run of images documented off the pages of certain books in his library that have influenced Hido’s work during the past twenty years, curated into a narrative of echos and inspirations. (Publisher’s text). - Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 01.2010.
"House Hunting" gilt als eines der unumstrittenen Highlights der Saison 2001. Die menschenleeren Nachtaufnahmen des jungen Amerikaners (Jahrgang 1968!) atmen tatsächlich die atmosphärische Dichte eines Edward Hopper. Unser Mitarbeiter Ulf kommentierte lakonisch: "Es ist ein grosses Buch. In jeder Beziehung!" Womit er recht hat.“ (schaden.com, 01.2010). - Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 01.2010.
„Diesmal im Breitformat! Nach "House Hunting" und "Outskirts" jetzt der dritte Band von Todd Hido.“ (schaden.com). "The work appears arrestingly different than that in Todd Hido's previous two monographs. It is as if, having spent so many nights outside the eerie, brightly lit suburban tract homes featured in 'House Hunting' and 'Outskirts', he has suddenly put his foot on the gas pedal and driven into the next day. But these landscapes continue Hido's mastery in portraying the most mundane scenes with a menacing air of expectancy. These unpeopled pictures, often taken through a car windshield, are so effective in creating tension they might almost have been staged. But in fact they are taken as seen. The telegraph poles, the straggling tree, the road leading nowhere are all exactly as encountered by Hido as he drove through Eastern Washington State, the California Central Valley, Indiana, South Louisiana and beyond." (Chris Pichler, Nazraeli Press). - Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 01.2010.