Excerpts from Silver Meadows

by Todd Hido, Katya Tylevich

Nazraeli Press is pleased to announce “Excerpts from Silver Meadows”, our sixth monograph by Todd Hido and his most ambitious project to date. Hido is one of the most widely recognized and influential photographic artists of our time. Silver Meadows is the name of a street that runs through the neighborhood in Kent, Ohio where the artist grew up. The setting of Hido’s childhood, it also became the creative wellspring for his work. Here, it serves as a point of departure for Hido’s reexamination of a Midwestern suburban upbringing; ‘a trip through the innocence of childhood and adolescence and into the darker aspects of life beyond.’ Beautifully printed on matt Japanese art paper, and featuring an ‘installation’ of tipped-in images on the case binding, “Excerpts from Silver Meadows” is printed in a first edition of 3,000 copies.

Genres: Photography

108 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2013

About the author

Todd Hido is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist whose work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, Eyemazing, Wired, Elephant, FOAM, and Vanity Fair. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Getty, the Whitney Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the de Young, the Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Pier 24 Photography, as well as in many other public and private collections. He has over a dozen published books; his most recent monograph titled Excerpts from Silver Meadows was released in 2013, along with an innovative b-sides box set designed to function as a companion piece to his award-winning monograph in 2014.

Reviews

[Orest Mercator · Rating 4 out of 5]

Quite a strong book with a very good closing essay. I think there’s a lot of vulnerability and voice in this work, but I’m not sure I’ve reached the vein of its cogency. Maybe it’s not meant to have one. Whatever the case, Hido is absolutely a unique photographer with a strong voice—perhaps too strong, as it sometimes leads to a repetition or recataloguing of the same few elements (watery windshield, trees, power lines, etc)

[Mills College Library]

779.24 H6328e 2013