*These prints will first be made available for purchase starting Tuesday, October 15. A limited number of prints will also be available for purchase at Printed Matter’s booth at OFFSCREEN in Paris at the Grand Garage Haussmann, October 15–20. Each edition will be available for a special limited-time price of $100 through Sunday, October 20.
Printed Matter is thrilled to announce the second and third in a series of three fundraising Risograph-print editions by the artist Todd Hido. These two images bookend Hido’s most recent Risograph print, launched by Printed Matter last month.
#242-a is an exemplary photograph of Hido’s early days photographing the effects of different light sources on white blankets of snow at night, this time in his hometown of Kent, OH. Exactingly printed by Eva Parra of Calipso Press, each image in the series uses a bespoke Risograph ink set and explores a wide yet subtle range of darkness and texture in the original photograph.
Todd Hido (born in Kent, Ohio, 1968) is an inveterate book collector, who regularly draws on this carefully cultivated library of artists’ and photobooks for inspiration. He notes that “As a photographer who generally makes books that are more trade publications, I find it really amazing to come into a world like Printed Matter: full of art with a capital A, artists’ books. I find that the variations and the explorations in books such as these, are really exciting and inspiring. I often hope to walk out of the shop, or one of the fairs, with lots of ideas in my head for my own work and my own future explorations.”
Through his unique process of photographing landscapes and signature color palette, Hido alludes to the quiet and mysterious side of suburban America—where uniform communities provide for a stable façade—implying the instability that often lies behind the walls. His photographs are in over 50 private and public collections around the world, including the Getty, Whitney Museum of American Art, and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Pier 24 Photography holds the archive of all of his published works. Hido has published more than a dozen books, including the award-winning monographs House Hunting (2001) and Excerpts from Silver Meadows (2013). His Aperture titles include Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and the Nude (2014) and Intimate Distance: Twenty-Five Years of Photographs (2016).