Please join us Saturday, August 16th, between 4:00 and 6:00 PM as we welcome iconic photographer Todd Hido to celebrate the release of his updated and expanded Aperture monograph Intimate Distance.
In addition to signing copies, he will engage in a discussion of the book and his work with fellow Bay Area artist Marina Luz.
"Well known for his photography of landscapes and suburban housing and for his use of detail and luminous color, acclaimed American photographer Todd Hido casts a distinctly cinematic eye across all that he photographs, digging deep into his memory and imagination for inspiration. Newly revised and expanded, Intimate Distance: Over Thirty Years of Photographs, A Chronological Album includes ten years of new work since the book’s first publication, including breathtaking new images from his travels to Iceland, Norway, and Japan, where he brings both a familiar eye and an expansive new vision.
Though Hido has published many smaller monographs of individual bodies of work, this volume gathers his most iconic images along with many unpublished works to provide the most complete and comprehensive monograph charting his career to date. The book is organized chronologically, showing how his series overlap in exciting ways. David Campany introduces the work and looks at the kind of cinematic spectatorship it demands. Katya Tylevich muses on the making of each of Hido’s major monographs: 'The photographs lead as far as human-made roads go. They reach the periphery of utility wires, footprints, and paths already taken.' From exterior to interior, surface observations to subconscious investigations, from landscapes to nudes, from America and beyond, this midcareer collection reveals how Hido's unique focus has developed and shifted over time, yet the tension between distance and intimacy remains.”
