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Which art books, prints and posters are available by and about this artist? Here is a sample of items of interest to a typical collector:
This is not the 2nd printing from 2015. The 1st printing has the cover text embossed, not the 2nd printing.
At the crossroad of an artist's book and a scrapbook, The Dead Are Glad to Be Remembered, signed and numbered in a limited edition of 500 copies, invites the reader to explore Todd Hido's work in dialogue with his collection of vernacular photographs. Each page of the album offers a new narrative composed by Todd Hido, with the collaboration of his wife Marina Luz, deliberately left open-ended.
The book presents a selection of Todd Hido's portraits, urban house views, and landscapes, both unpublished and iconic, punctuated by postcards, book covers, vintage movie posters, old amateur portraits, drawings, photo booth pictures, and more. The vernacular photography is reproduced in all its materiality. Genres blend together to create a unique work that plays on different atmospheres around the themes of desire, loneliness, memory, the unconscious, and the subconscious, which are characteristic of the photographer's work. These themes are found in the essay by author Brad Zellar, at the heart of the book, which he explores through these fragments of experiences and stories interspersed with literary quotations.
Both an ode to the printed image and to the memory of those who have lived, this limited edition echoes traditional photo albums with its screw-bound canvas cover. The dialogue between the materiality of the images and the different types of paper, including one that is translucent, creates a cinematic fiction within the book, with certain photographs appearing and disappearing like enigmatic collages. These images, arranged randomly on the page, respond to one another and allow the reader to create their own narratives.
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Todd Hido (b. 1968) is an acclaimed American photographer best known for his haunting, cinematic imagery of suburban landscapes, empty homes, and evocative portraits. His work explores themes of memory, isolation, desire, and the psychological undercurrents of everyday life.
Born in Kent, Ohio, Hido earned his BFA from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and later an MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts. He is now based in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Hido rose to prominence with his debut monograph House Hunting (2001), which featured long-exposure night photographs of lonely, glowing houses in anonymous American neighborhoods. These images, often shot from the street with fogged windows or obscured views, evoke a sense of both domestic familiarity and eerie detachment.
Subsequent works like Outskirts (2002), Roaming (2004), Excerpts from Silver Meadows (2013), expanded his themes, incorporating bleak Midwestern landscapes, motels, and intimate, sometimes erotic portraiture. Hido often uses natural light, blurred perspectives, and muted color palettes to create a dreamlike quality, inviting viewers to interpret emotional narratives.
His work has been widely exhibited and is included in major collections such as the Getty, Whitney, Guggenheim, and SFMoMA. He has published over a dozen photobooks—considered essential in contemporary photography—and is also a respected teacher and mentor.
Todd Hido’s photographs are less about documentation and more about emotional resonance, portraying an American landscape filtered through memory, longing, and the subconscious.
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