Todd Hido

Gregory Halpern

"In this book, Todd Hido explores the genres of landscape, interiors, and nude photography, with an emphasis on creating images from a personal perspective. Through words and photographs, he reveals insight into his own practice and discusses a wide range of creative issues, including mining one's own memory and experience as inspiration; using light, texture, and detail for greater impact; exploring the narrative potential activated when sequencing images; and creating powerful stories with emotional weight and beauty. Gregory Halpern, a student of Todd Hido, provides the introduction. Learn how to: create landscapes and interiors with emotional charge that suggest a larger story; evoke mood and feeling through color and composition; work with subjects and different environments to capture dramatic portraits"--P. [4] of cover.

Todd Hido - On Landscapes, Interiors, and Some Nudes

I.m. ruzz

I wasn't overly familiar with Hido's work prior to getting the book. I wanted to read the entire Aperture workshop series and began here. It was a good start (see my review of the Alex Webb book for why). A small, light on text, book purporting to be a workshop in a book (it fails on that front) it had a number of beautiful pictures in it and despite itself it delivered more than a slight glimpse into Hido's mind, process and craft. 

But more than showing us his mind, or thought process it shared a number of the questions that plague (or motivate) him and drive him to continue making work. He raises issues you need to consider. Issues that may or may not provoke something in you and make you a richer, deeper person, and subsequently a better photographer. 

Hido seems the type of photographer I could tolerate to be around--though successful arts photographers literally contradict how life works and as such are hard to relate to. 

I'd recommend this book to those who seek feeling, or emotion, or want to use the image to share something profound. It may help stoke the fire. It may give you some solace to know he can make these images and still afford to eat and travel and work. Which in itself is something worth dwelling on.

Todd Hido - On Landscapes, Interiors, and Some Nudes

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