Following John Divola´s excellent book of discourse THE GREEN OF THIS NOTEBOOK Todd Hido with WITNESS #7 has now released another exciting book, that deals with the question, what the relations between images are, may they be written, remembered or photographed.
The book starts with his own photographs of vacant interiors of foreclosed homes, published as a group for the first time. Hido’s images contain traces and impressions of lives previously having been lived in the now-empty homes. His potent and surreal photographs of empty spaces evoke a longing for the time when things were better in those homes. What went wrong? Who used to live there? At the same time these images make us think about the many, who lost their homes in the current economic crisis.
The second part of the book contains portraits made by Leon Borensztein during the 1980s. Borensztein, an immigrant from Poland, visited homes and businesses in the suburbs of Stockton, Fresno and Bakersfield, photographing his subjects in front of a generic backdrop to create a rich sociological document. Presented in Witness #7, Borensztein´s portraits relate to Hido´s vacant rooms in a painful an intense way, especially as we know, that they are now history, too.
The book closes with what Hido describes as “a slowly cooked stew of books” – a 40-page run of images documented off the pages of certain books in his library that have influenced Hido’s work during the past 20 years, curated into a narrative of echos and inspiration |
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Nazraeli Press, 2009 /// 242 x 304 mm /// 96 pages /// 49 plates in color and b&w /// hardcover /// English
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€44.00
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