House Hunting [SIGNED]
Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, 2001. First edition. Hardcover. 1/2000. Elephant folio. Housed in a blue-grey cloth clamshell box with black lettering on the cover. Photo-illustrated dust jacket with yellow on the front cover, white on the spine. Grey paper boards with black lettering on the front cover and spine. Signed by the photographer on the half-title page.
The first published monograph by acclaimed American photographer Todd Hido (b.1968), the book is profusely illustrated throughout with remarkable color images of the suburban landscape of America, featuring both exteriors and interiors of homes. The photographer's immaculate and subtle use of light produce images which at time seem to almost border on paintings.
As new. Item #48618
ISBN: 3923922965
"Published in 2001, House Hunting is, on the one hand, a portrait of a certain America at that specific moment in history: this is an economically downtrodden place, dark and empty homes with the dirty laundry barely packed, or homes with the lights on but radiating no warmth. Simultaneously, this is a portrait of America — and specifically, suburban America — from any contemporary post-war decade: a raw look at white paint chipping off of picket fences." - Katya Tylevich
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.” - The Publisher.
Price: $675.00