Japanese Photography Magazines, 1880s to 1980s — Kaneko Ryuichi, Toda Masako, & Ivan Vartanian. Published by Goliga Books.
We’ve long known about the importance of the Japanese photobook, yet of course many of those now-famous photographers got their start with images for magazines first. The famous issues of Provoke are just the tip of the iceberg, a tiny sliver, when it comes to the extraordinary range of publications created in Japan. For anyone who likes books on books (my personal favorite library category), this is an absolute must.
Todd Hido (born in Kent, Ohio, 1968) wanders endlessly, taking lengthy road trips in search of imagery that connects with his own memories. Through his unique landscape process 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 many private and public collections, including at 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), as well as innovative B-Sides Box Sets, which function as companion pieces to his books. His Aperture titles include Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and the Nude (2014) and Intimate Distance: Twenty-Five Years of Photographs (2016). His latest book is Bright Black World (2018). His newest publication, The End Sends Advance Warning, was released in November. Hido is also a collector, and over the last twenty-five years has created one of the most notable photobook collections, which was featured in Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books (2019).