Bright black world
By: Todd Hido ; foreword Alexander Nemerov
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Nazraeli Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Paso Robles, CA
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781590054758
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Catalogs; Landscape photography; Artistic Photography
Description: "For over two decades, Hido has crafted narratives through loose and mysterious suburban scenes, desolate landscapes, and stylized portraits. He has traversed North America capturing places that feel at once familiar and unknown; welcoming and unsettling. Underscoring the influences of Nordic mythology and specifically the idea of Fimbulwinter, which translates into the 'endless winter', many of Hido's new images allude to and provide form for this notion of an apocalyptic, never-ending winter. Exploring the dark terrain of the Northern European landscape and regions as far as the North Sea of Japan enchanted Hido, calling him back on several occasions. This newest publication highlights the artist's first significant foray extensively photographing territory outside of the United States, chronicling a decidedly new psychological geography"--