House Hunting

by Todd Hido (Photographer), A.M. Homes (Contributor)

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.

Genres: Photography, Art, Art and Photography

56 pages, Hardcover

First published May 1, 2001

About the author

Todd Hido is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist whose work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, Eyemazing, Wired, Elephant, FOAM, and Vanity Fair. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Getty, the Whitney Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the de Young, the Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Pier 24 Photography, as well as in many other public and private collections. He has over a dozen published books; his most recent monograph titled Excerpts from Silver Meadows was released in 2013, along with an innovative b-sides box set designed to function as a companion piece to his award-winning monograph in 2014.

Reviews

[Jennifer Nelson]

Was thinking I'd get a copy from Amazon...costs $400...that won't be happening unless I rob a bank or something. I'd maybe be the only bank robber ever whose first purchase was a ton of expensive books.

[Georgia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Story by A.M. HOMES opens the book in such a touching way the rest of the book wouldn't be experienced well without it. Beautiful collaboration

[Orest Mercator · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very technically skilled, but did not move me much beyond that.

[Ben Luu · Rating 4 out of 5]

There used to be a time where this photo-book was my bible. A large part of it still is massively inspiring, but the more I've learned about the male gaze, the less kindly I've viewed some of the nude photos here.