ROAMING
Todd Hido
Hardbound,
14" x 11", 56 pages
25 four-color
plates
2004, Nazraeli Press
From
the Publisher:
The work in Roaming appears arrestingly
different than that in Todd Hido’s previous two monographs.
It is as if, having spent so many nights outside the eerie, brightly
lit suburban tract homes featured in House Hunting and
Outskirts, he has suddenly put his foot on the gas pedal
and driven into the next day. But these landscapes continue Hido’s
mastery in portraying the most mundane scenes with a menacing
air of expectancy. These unpeopled pictures, often taken through
a car windshield, are so effective in creating tension they might
almost have been staged. But in fact they are taken “as
seen”; the telegraph poles, the straggling tree, the road
leading nowhere are all exactly as encountered by Hido as he drove
through Eastern Washington State, the California Central Valley,
Indiana, South Louisiana and beyond.
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