House Hunting
Todd Hido
Nazraeli Press
English
Hardcover
56 Pages
432 x 356 mm
2001
ISBN 9781590055052
Newly remastered edition of Todd Hido’s iconic and highly sought-after monograph, House Hunting. To celebrate the upcoming 20th anniversary of this important book, certainly one of the most influential and oft-cited photography monographs of our time, Nazraeli Press has collaborated closely with the artist to achieve a new impression of the highest possible fidelity. Printed on heavyweight matte art paper. Using cutting-edge technologies in both the pre-press and production phases. This new edition of House Hunting stays true to the original design and format while delivering even more accurate color rendition and nuances in tone and saturation. To those fortunate enough to own a copy of the original edition, it further highlights the images themselves that first catapulted the artist and his first monograph to fame.
“Todd Hido’s large color photographs of suburbia are lonely, forlorn, mysterious… but 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.” — From the description of the first printing of House Hunting, announced in 2000.
(Source: http://www.toddhido.com/househunting)
About the Artist
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, the 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. Aperture will publish his mid-career survey in 2016.
http://www.toddhido.com/
(Source: http://www.toddhido.com/info)
About the Publisher
Founded in 1990, Nazraeli Press has published over 600 titles on the fine and applied arts. The press is known for its unorthodox use of common materials – such as papers, wood, plastic, metals – and for introducing elements of handwork into otherwise mass-produced objects. The press’s books have themselves been the subject of exhibitions and books about books.
Formats range from postcard-sized artist’s books to oversized monographs. In addition to traditionally-bound books, the press has published work in scroll format; loose cards in plexiglass boxes; portfolios of original photographs; and, since 2001, a subscription-based series of 16-page artist’s books, called “One Picture Books”, which was relaunched in an upscaled and upgraded format in 2018. Limited to 500 numbered copies, each “One Picture Book” contains a signed, original photograph by the featured artist.
https://www.nazraeli.com/
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