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Witness number seven

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Description: This volume of Witness, edited by Todd Hido, is organised into three sections. The first contains his own work - photographs of a foreclosed home (pictures of places that are really about people); the second contains portrait work by Leon Borensztein; the third contains (intermixed with his own work) images made by various photographers over several decades, which Hido has found enduringly inspiring.
Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [2009]
Call number: 653153
Creator: Hido, Todd (1968-)(Opens in new tab)
ISBN: 1590052447; 9781590052440

Outskirts

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This stunning new book by Todd Hido is a perfect companion volume to his first title, 'House Hunting' ... Hido's large-format color photographs of suburbia convey an aura of loneliness, mystery and isolation while managing, at the same time, to excude 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"--Publisher's description.

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Silver meadows b-sides box set

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"Todd Hido's 'Silver Meadows B-Sides Box Set' is a follow-up publication to the artist's award-winning 2013 monograph, 'Excerpts from Silver Meadows.' Designed to function as a companion to that title as well as a sovereign object in its own right, 'B-Sides Box Set' comprises 50 images printed on loose cards, presented in a 2-piece lucite box. The selection includes alternate images that didn't make it into the book, as well as variations of images that did. The collection offers a behind-the-scenes look at how Hido selects and arranges images in book form. 'Making good and interesting pictures is only half of what it takes to make a memorable visual book,' Hido explains. 'The way one organizes images to create a narrative sequence also plays an important role in creating something that people want to pick up and take home'"--Publisher's description.

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Excerpts from silver meadows

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"Nazraeli Press is pleased to announce Excerpts from Silver Meadows, our sixth monograph by Todd Hido and his most ambitious project to date. Hido is one of the most widely recognized and influential photographic artists of our time. Silver Meadows is the name of a street that runs through the neighborhood in Kent, Ohio where the artist grew up. The setting of Hido's childhood, it also became the creative wellspring for his work. Here, it serves as a point of departure for Hido's reexamination of a Midwestern suburban upbringing; 'a trip through the innocence of childhood and adolescence and into the darker aspects of life beyond.' Beautifully printed on matte Japanese art paper, and featuring an 'installation' of tipped-in images on the case binding, 'Excerpts from Silver Meadows' is printed in a first edition of 3,000 copies. A special edition with an signed and numbered original print is also available."--Publisher's description.

653161

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House hunting : with 'Just looking' a story by A.M. Homes

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"For the series, Hido photographed suburban houses-repossessed tract homes, family homes and similarly trivial architecture--at night, with nothing to suggest habitation but the soft glow of TV screens and bedlights through window blinds. Hido's photos tread a thin line between eerie and inviting, between sneering judgment and melancholic compassion"--Publisher's description.

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Motel Club

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"Like the gear worn by Hido's models, the word 'fatal' is fitting and revealing. For there is something quite creepy and pervy about these beautiful pictures. There is the haunting sense that this is the last photo of X or Y before she disappeared ... All things considered, it is no wonder these women appear so vulnerable. The camera poses the question it is incapable of answering. More exactly, because of the old film stock, it asks the same question in two slightly different tenses: What has become of them? What is to become of them?"--From Dyer's essay.

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Mary Todd Lincoln letters to James Smith

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These six letters were written by Mary Todd Lincoln to Reverend James Smith from 1866 to 1870. Several of the letters were written while the Lincolns were in Europe. In these letters, Mary Todd Lincoln talks about her husband Abraham Lincoln and his library, her travels abroad, her son Robert, William Herndon and his remembrances of her husband, and Congress voting on her pension of $3,000 a year.

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