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 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…  House Sitting: The Photography of Todd Hido By Andy Grundberg, Artforum International, 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a series he calls “House Hunting”… TODD HIDO: “House Sitting: The Photography of Todd Hido” (1998)  Todd Hido’s new and unpublished work walks a fine line, a line that exists in the viewer rather than Todd. The work seems to come into existence through the eye’s of a smeared-single-pane-window voyeurish fog. It is the adult-white-male fog of childhood memories, and the mental hot-iron-branding of broken families, divorced parents, alchohol, abuse… of 1970′s vinyl feelings and plastic textures, popcorn ceilings and pan…  …existence and we share persistence until we leave this place… and then the craters and scratches of our mark our left, to slowly dissipate or to firmly remain… as fragments on “the land”. Witness 7, by Todd Hido, is an examination 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 sect… | ||||||||||||||
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