THE END SENDS ADVANCE WARNING by Todd Hido

アメリカ人フォトグラファー、トッド・ハイド(Todd Hido)の作品集。

25年以上にわたり、ゆるやかで謎めいた郊外の情景や、人影のない風景、まるで映画のようなポートレートを通して、作者は物語を生み出してきた。本書はその題名とは異なり、希望と、美しさと、我々がこの時代にそれらを切望する理由を主題としている。その最新のイメージ群のため、作者はハワイ諸島から、気象学的にその反対に位置するベーリング海の海岸や、北極圏内の北欧のフィヨルドなど、遠くへと放浪した。そうした地理学的な多様性があろうと、作者がとらえた場所はどれも親しみやすさを感じさせながらも未知であり、歓迎されるようでありながら不安も感じさせる。

本モノグラフは、前作「Bright Black World」の続編として物語り、未発表の新作風景写真を約80点を収録している。厚地のアート紙に鮮やかに印刷され、オフセット印刷が施されたリネンを用いて製本し、また嵩高のアート紙に9点の写真を印刷して小さく貼り込み、加えてトレーシングペーパーに印刷されたブックレットも付属している。本書はアーティスト・ブックとして傑作と言えよう。

For over 25 years, Hido has crafted narratives through loose and mysterious suburban scenes, desolate landscapes, and cinematic portraits. Irrespective of its title, this is a book about hope and beauty and why we seek it so desperately at this time. For his latest images he has roamed as far as the Hawaiian Islands and their meteorological opposites; the shores of the Bering Sea, and Nordic fjords above the Arctic Circle. Even with such geographic diversity, Hido captures places that feel at once familiar and unknown; welcoming and unsettling.

With this stunning new monograph, Hido picks up where his previous title Bright Black World left off, presenting some 80 new and previously unpublished landscape photographs. The End Sends Advance Warning is beautifully printed on heavyweight art paper and bound in offset printed linen. The book also includes 9 tipped-in photographs printed on Kasadaka art paper, as well as tipped-in and laid-in booklets. A masterpiece of an artist’s book, and a must for the serious contemporary art library.

Todd Hido’s photographs have been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, and most recently at the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Locle, Switzerland. Other major institutions that have exhibited Hido’s work include the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Miami Art Museum, Florida; Netherland Architecture Institute, Rotterdam; Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy; Samsung Museum of Modern Art in Korea; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His work was recently on view in the 49th edition of Les Recontres d’Arles, France.

Work by Hido is held in public and private collections including the Guggenheim Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Smithsonian; and Fotomuseum Winterthur.

by Todd Hido

REGULAR PRICE ¥16,280  (tax incl.)

hardcover
104 pages
432 x 356 mm
color, black and white
limited edition of 6,000 copies
2023

published by NAZRAELI PRESS