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Hido, Todd (Photographer) & Carver, Raymond (Contribution).
TODD HIDO: BETWEEN THE TWO.
Tucson, AZ:
Nazraeli Press,
2007.
Hardcover.
Second Edition/First Printing.
76 pages.
As New.
New Edition of the photographer's collection of color photographs. Limited Edition of 2000 copies. A splendid production by Todd Hido and Chris Pichler: Oversize-volume format in very wide oblong shape. Austerely handsome black hard boards with white titles embossed on cover and spine, as issued. Photographs by Todd Hido. Poem, "Energy", by Raymond Carver appended at the end. Printed on thick uncoated stock paper to the very highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Todd Hido's fourth, and in many ways, most hauntingly beautiful collection. His three previous collections, "House Hunting", "Outskirts", and "Roaming", are now considered contemporary classics. Apart from the fact that Hido continues to mine the desolate terrain he has explored in the past, he also finally shows some of the most poignant and moving female nudes anyone is ever likely to see. "Weaves photographs of abandoned houses together with portraits of anonymous models in motel rooms that have obviously seen better days. Todd Hido's work has been widely exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, and is included in the Permanent Collections of such museums as The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art" (Publisher's blurb). Cutting-edge museums are not the only admirers of Todd Hido's work. No one is surprised that Michael Kenna's landscape work has an enormous international following. Todd Hido's landscapes (of places and now, the body) are not instantly or conventionally pleasing to the eye. His subjects are loneliness and decay, and their immanent transcendence, which gradually dawns on the viewer, the uncanny photographic equivalent of the works of Raymond Carver, Sam Shepard, and Wim Wenders: An abandoned house and a dream-like female nude are enigmatic yet sublime metaphors for the broken soul. Hido has clearly struck a chord because he has been incredibly successful and commands a remarkable cult following. A "must-have" title for Todd Hido collectors. This copy is prominently and beautifully signed in black pen on the title page by Todd Hido. This edition will sell out as quickly as the First Limited Edition. This is one of very few signed copies of the Second Limited Edition still available online and has no flaws, a pristine beauty. Signed copies of the First Limited Edition online now command at least twice as much and the publisher no longer has signed copies of either edition. A very scarce signed copy thus. 35 color plates. One of the most brilliant living American photographers. A flawless copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER TODD HIDO TITLES IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1590051769. $75.00 |
