Intimate Distance: Twenty-Five Years of Photographs, A Chronological Album

by Todd Hido (Photographer), David Campany (Contributor), Katya Tylevich (Contributor)

Well-known for his photographs of landscapes and suburban housing across the United States, and for his use of luminous color, Todd Hido casts a distinctly cinematic eye across all that he photographs, digging deep into his memory and imagination for inspiration.

David Campany introduces the work and looks specifically at Hido’s cinematic influences and the kind of spectatorship the work demands. The book is organized chronologically, showing how his series overlap in exciting, new ways. Also featured are short interviews with Hido about the making of each of his monographs. From exterior to interior, surface observations to subconscious investigations, landscapes to nudes, this mid-career survey reveals insight into Hido’s practice and illustrates how his unique focus has developed and shifted over time.

Genres: Photography, Art, Nonfiction, Coffee Table Books, Art and Photography

272 pages, Hardcover

First published October 31, 2016

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

[Joe · Rating 4 out of 5]

A nicely selected and printed chronological survey of Hido's work. The writing is a bit weak in places, but the images are wonderful. I wish the layout didn't put so many of the images across the fold. Some of the image sizes are unnecessarily small, too. These are minor design quibbles. I'm even more convinced of the genius of "Excerpts from Silver Meadows" now. The integration of Hido's various bodies of work is amazing. Fans of Hido should seek that book out before the price becomes mildly astronomical, like his earlier Nazraeli books. Why won't someone reprint House Hunting for a reasonable price?

[Andy Paciorek · Rating 5 out of 5]

This stunning retrospective of Todd Hido's photographic art consists mainly of evocative nocturnes of buildings, atmospheric weather-touched landscapes and shots of beautiful women. There is no gloss to the work : it is understated yet impressive, bleak yet beautiful. The houses are closed to us but invite in our imagination, the models are people with personalities not glamourised mannequins, the vistas have an uncanny air and a sense of melancholia weaves throughout the book.
A quality presentation of this artist's work which is delivered with a minimum but sufficient amount of text.

[Orest Mercator · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great use of diagonal lines and control over frame dynamics. He really finds the angles that make modest scenes feel interesting and his use of light and exposure control in nocturnes is pretty great.

[Jenina Jill Sy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Photographs and chronology is great. Book from Amazon came really damaged.