Los Angeles Book Launch with Todd Hido
Join Aperture and Arcana: Books on the Arts for a book launch with photographer Todd Hido to celebrate the release of his updated and expanded monograph Intimate Distance: Over Thirty Years of Photographs, A Chronological Album (Aperture, 2025). In addition to signing copies, he will engage in a discussion of the book and his work with fellow Bay Area artist Marina Luz.
Well known for his photography of landscapes and suburban housing, and for his use of detail and luminous color, acclaimed American photographer Todd Hido casts a distinctly cinematic eye across all that he photographs, digging deep into his memory and imagination for inspiration. Newly revised and expanded, Intimate Distance includes ten years of new work since the book’s first publication, including breathtaking new images from his travels to Iceland, Norway, and Japan, where he brings both a familiar eye and an expansive new vision.
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Todd Hido (born in Kent, Ohio, 1968) is a San Francisco Bay Area–based artist whose work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, Wired, Elephant, Foam, and Vanity Fair. His photographs are in the permanent collections of over fifty museums, including the Getty Center, Los Angeles; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has authored over a dozen books, including House Hunting (2001), Excerpts from Silver Meadows (2013), Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and the Nude (Aperture, 2014), and The End Sends Advance Warning (2024). Hido is also an avid photobook collector with a library of over 8,500 titles.
Marina Luz is an award-winning illustrator whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Vice, and ProPublica, among other publications. She runs Honeylux, an illustration and design studio, based in Oakland, California.
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Image: Todd Hido, #11506-3940, 2016, from Intimate Distance (Aperture, 2025). © Todd Hido
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