House Hunting by Todd Hido
Todd Hido is an American contemporary artist and photographer. Much of Hido's work involves urban and suburban housing across the U.S. He produced large, highly detailed and luminous color photographs. One of the most famous work by Todd Hido is House Hunting which was published on May 1st by Nazraeli Press.
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| Front Cover |
House Hunting
When I first saw his photo book, the first thing that I noticed was how big the book is. With larger size, greater detail can be shown which was very important especially in Todd Hido's work. His photo-book started with one of the photograph of house as his cover page and ended with another photo of house which was very interesting like a story book with beginning and ending. Followed by a body copy explaining about his overall experience when he shot the photos. I also noticed the minimal usage of texts in his photo-book as not to disrupt or distract the images. The texts were small and placed on the corner of the cover. No description of each photos were given and he only has one introduction at the beginning of his book for all his work.
Most photos are placed on the right side with vertical format and always come with blank page behind each photo, with a small code placed on the bottom left of the page. Some of the spread are blank to act as a resting place or break, some pictures that have horizontal format are placed across two spreads.
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| The photo is on the right side |
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| Description about his experience when taking the photos |
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| The photo cross-over between two pages |
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| The photo cross-over between two pages |
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| The photo is on the left side |
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| Small code on the back of each photo |
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| The last page of the photo book |
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| Back Cover |
Subject
Hido photographs' display such strong emotions of sad, gloomy, lonely and lost, especially with his house hunting series which left the reader wondering what could have happened or happening inside the house. Presence of people are absent from his photographs, which thus further strengthen the emotions of gloomy, lonely and lost. His exploration into themes of loneliness continues through to his interior photographs, which again absent of people, but suggest that a presence was once there, for example a door left ajar and chair that was turned over. Other than that, he also brings out the feelings through colors, lines, space, perspective and textures. Hido used only available light and long exposure, giving the effect of very saturated images which almost glow off the images.
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