Todd Hido: Art of Darkness By Justin Berton, February 1, 2006 From the outside, Todd Hido’s home looks perfectly normal. You might even pass it by without a second thought. Hido lives in a warm-blue Rockridge dwelling with his wife, Nina, and their three-year-old twins, Owen and Audrey. The neighborly artifice has all the broad strokes of a Rockwellian unit: A family sedan parked at the curb; a patch of grass scattered with toys; a pair
TODD HIDO: “Art of Darkness” (2006)
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TODD HIDO: “Art of Darkness” (2006)
…n of our shared existence and its imprints but more importantly, the marks that are part of Todd, made by others left on his “self” and in turn, on us. Broken into parts, the first section, foreclosed homes in the 1990′s explores the marks and connectedness that reflect our sense of “home”, Todd’s sense of “home”, the loss of “home” and the death of our dreams… Todd’s and our
TODD HIDO: “Witness 7″ (2009)
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TODD HIDO: “Witness 7″ (2009)
House Sitting: The Photography of Todd Hido By Andy Grundberg, originally published in Artforum, May 1, 1998 The recent vintage of most California houses doesn’t make them particularly promising settings for ghost stories. But Todd Hido, a photographer just starting to make his presence known in the Bay Area, manages to elicit the shivers associated with haunted houses in his large color photographs. In a series he calls “House Hunt
TODD HIDO: “House Sitting: The Photography of Todd Hido” (1998)
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TODD HIDO: “House Sitting: The Photography of Todd Hido” (1998)
Photographer Todd Hido speaks about his work and shares a first look at his upcoming book, Silver Meadows. Hido is the curator of the ONWARD Compé ’12 Exhibition.
ASX.TV: Todd Hido – “ONWARD – Interview with Todd Hido” (2012)
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ASX.TV: Todd Hido – “ONWARD – Interview with Todd Hido” (2012)
From Ohio, 2009 By Doug Rickard The clouds are passing by gently… the pale blue sky smiles because it is summer again and the sun beams its warm rays down into your suburban backyard in the Midwest. You’re standing there looking at the white house next door and the curtains are closed. The dry weeds sting at your shins as you stand there in your neglected dirt yard, thorns sticking to your little boy 1970’s socks as you look at the white house
REVIEW: TODD HIDO – “Ohio” (2009)
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REVIEW: TODD HIDO – “Ohio” (2009)
…tes poignant images filled with inexplicable gravity. He often frames the compositions from inside his car, photographing through the windshield. Compiled from Todd’s presentation at the George Eastman House on January 27, 2011.
ASX.TV: Todd Hido – “Wish You Were Here” (2011)
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ASX.TV: Todd Hido – “Wish You Were Here” (2011)
8906, 2009 By Ian Epstein I once heard someone remark that the desire to have a perfect lawn was not unlike the desire to have a piece of perfect sculpture for a body – the lengths to which a person goes to achieve such perfection reveal a great deal. And so the coiffed and manicured American lawn that is a hallmark of the suburbs with perfect green grass came to resemble America’s plastic bodies, transformed by technology and money from flesh
TODD HIDO: “Fragmented Narratives” (2011)
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TODD HIDO: “Fragmented Narratives” (2011)
…niture can be rife with suggested stories and associations when captured in the just the right way. He still uses only natural light, although he may use curtains to alter or block light. Lately, Hido has been using a vintage 126 camera that his wife found in a thrift shop. He first used the camera to help his models relax before he would begin shooting with his professional equipment, but soon he noticed that the vintage camera’s flash cre
ASX.TV: Todd Hido – “Spark – KQED” (2006)
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ASX.TV: Todd Hido – “Spark – KQED” (2006)
Eleanor, Chicago, 1953 Interview with Harry M. Callahan, Conducted by Robert Brown in Providence, RI, February 13, 1975 The following oral history transcript is the result of a tape-recorded interview with Harry M. Callahan on February 13, 1975. The interview took place in Providence, RI, and was conducted by Robert Brown for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. The quality of this recording is uneven due to mechanical difficu
INTERVIEW: “Harry M. Callahan Interview, February 13, 1975″
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INTERVIEW: “Harry M. Callahan Interview, February 13, 1975″
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