- Hardcover
- Publisher: Nazraeli Pr; First Edition edition (25 Mar 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1590052668
- ISBN-13: 978-1590052662
- Product Dimensions: 58.7 x 39.6 x 26.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 667,363 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Nazraeli Press is pleased to announce Todd Hido's new book of landscape photographs, A Road Divided, in which the artist again focuses his attention on the American landscape. Driving lonely roads on the outskirts of cities, Hido creates poignant images filled with inexplicable gravity, cinematic scenes of places that somehow exist in our collective memory. In these new pictures, Hido demonstrates his fluidity within the daytime realm, putting aside the harder edge that characterizes his night work by photographing through veils of rain or ice. Delicately, potently, embracing the beauty of the pictorial, Hido's new pictures present an image plane that is often fully disintegrated, recalling impressionist painting. With an unquestionably modern effect, he often frames the compositions from inside his car, photographing straight through the windshield, using it as an additional lens and bringing a sense of timing and moment to these stationary scenes. Todd Hido's photographs have been exhibited internationally, and are included in numerous museum collections, including the Whitney Museum of Art, New York; Guggenheim Museum, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Having been tipped off by the recipient, I bought this book as a birthday present and though I didn't know the photographer's work (and it wasn't cheap!) when I saw the book 'in the flesh' I was stunned by the quality of the images and the repro. Hido's landscapes are extraordinarily evocative and timeless and the book has a truly magical quality. I couldn't recommend it highly enough. Time to start saving for a print...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
The photos in this book are incredible. definitely worth the purchase! it is a huge book too, the largest i have. Won't even fit on my bookcase..
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Beautiful Desolation
25 Dec 2010
Format:Hardcover
The latest book by Todd Hido does not disappoint. It is a large, oversized monograph devoted to desolate roads and lonely landscapes. Like his pictures of houses the landscapes give a sense of isolation while at the same time appearing beautiful to look at. The publication is high quality with beautifully printed photographs in a sturdy hardcover format. The printing is so good you could frame a page as a work of art. Highly recommended and don't delay in purchasing this book if you are a Hido fan since his books seem to consistently sell out and become collector's items.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
sublime
8 July 2011
Format:Hardcover
I hadn't planned on writing a review until I saw the lame 1 star review that is purely based on shipping and not on the book itself. I absolutely LOVE this book. The quality of print is wonderful as is the large size. Many (if not most) of the photos in this book were taken through the windshield of his car, often through rain, fog, or ice. The images convey a kind of beautiful melancholic outlook that American culture usually avoids. The French, however, savor the feeling--all the more reason to begin the work with a quote by Baudrillard. After the quote, however, you won't find any essay, just beautifully executed photo after photo.
Think about how much of the world we see through the "lens" of a car window. Hido shows us landscape in a way that is entirely familiar and, to wax Freudian, "uncanny" because we immediately suppress one landscape as we pass by another and another and another at a speed that doesn't give us time for static contemplation. Pause to look at Hido's book, however, and you will start to see things that your mind has pushed aside. The price to slow down and see it is less than the cost of filling the tank of your minivan--at least for now.
Think about how much of the world we see through the "lens" of a car window. Hido shows us landscape in a way that is entirely familiar and, to wax Freudian, "uncanny" because we immediately suppress one landscape as we pass by another and another and another at a speed that doesn't give us time for static contemplation. Pause to look at Hido's book, however, and you will start to see things that your mind has pushed aside. The price to slow down and see it is less than the cost of filling the tank of your minivan--at least for now.
4 of 31 people found the following review helpful
What's with the lousy packing????
9 Jan 2011
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book arrived damaged - the corners were all bent - the book had been tossed into a cardboard box along with another expensive photo book and a piece of brown paper had been put on top. This is the third time I have received books packed, and damaged, like this from Amazon. It must be the warehouse as I receive other books shrink wrapped on to a stiff piece of cardboard which arrive in perfect condition. I wrote Amazon but no reply. I hate to drop Amazon as my source for these books but what can I do - I am tired of returning this stuff.
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